Limericks & Articles
The mind is a marvelous machine, capable of achieving such heights and yet also able to sink to such lows. And it seems that we can’t […]
The language of poetry is also the language of dreams. Sometimes convoluted, often inscrutable, they echo the voice of the subconscious mind. Speaking through feelings rather […]
After writing a thousand limericks about everything from Black Holes to the Bhagavad Gita, I have to reflect on my own relationship with the limerick. It’s […]
The Greeks have an old saying, “Gnothi seauton.” Which is just a fancy way to say, “Know thyself.” More valuable than all the objective facts in […]
We can sit and argue about the purpose of poetry until the sun stops rising. Just as we could ponder the meaning of life until shortly […]
If you’re a fan of conventional limericks, you may be accustomed to something more lightweight and laughable. But this series of limericks about darkness and sorrow […]
Some things in life are too important for ordinary words, and that’s why I’ve written a series of limericks about virtue, duty and decency. I can’t […]
Kermit the Frog has famously warned us that it’s not easy being green. I’d like to take the perceptive amphibian’s augury one step further and say […]
A profession that we poets all too often overlook is that of the life scientist. The biologists, botanists, agronomists and organic chemists all get short shrift […]