Teach-in Grook

UnderYourSpell · Nov 10, 2013

Right I've left you alone for far too long and I don't want your muses getting rusty!
I have just been introduced to the Grook and I reckon I've been writing these for a while without realising it. Seems to me they are witticisms and homilies in rhyme.
Here is a link to give you the idea
Grooks
A few that I wrote off the top of my head this afternoon, some better than others!

When you took my hand in marriage
no vows were ever said
that I'd be sitting here and frowning
over mismatched socks instead.

.......................................

Sweeping up this dog hair,
the piles and piles of fur
I wonder how there's any
still growing on the cur.

.......................................

Love is like
a cherry, sip
the fruit, then find
you've got the pip.

........................................

Facebook friends
are very well,
except for some who're
straight from hell

........................................

Mother gave me blonde hair
she gave me blue eyes too,
Daddy dear your bad feet
are what I got from you.

........................................

Angeline · Nov 10, 2013

You did it! Now I have to try one but I don't think I will be very good at it.

UnderYourSpell · Nov 11, 2013

Sure you will, just think of those funny little things that happen in everyday life

Angeline · Nov 11, 2013

UnderYourSpell said:
Sure you will, just think of those funny little things that happen in everyday life

I'm thinking! I'm not really clever the way you are with poems. I have my talents but that one is not so developed. And I've loved that form for years. When I was a teenager someone gave me one of Piet Hein's books and I thought they were such clever, charming little poems. Maybe I need to go read some aphorisms.

UnderYourSpell · Nov 11, 2013

A parrot is a funny bird
I wonder when it talks
if it knows it talks in human
but still has parrot thoughts.

Ashesh9 · Nov 11, 2013

When i took your hand in marriage
Some vows were left unsaid---
That I'd be draggin' excess baggage
Down shoppin' Mall aisles , as U marched ahead !?!

UnderYourSpell · Nov 11, 2013

Ashesh9 said:
When i took your hand in marriage
Some vows were left unsaid---
That I'd be draggin' excess baggage
Down shoppin' Mall aisles , as U marched ahead !?!

Don't think that quite scans on the last line lol but you've got the idea

GuiltyPleasure · Nov 11, 2013

Peeling onions for your stew
Brings water to my eyes
But the butter in your spuds
Brings inches to your thighs.

todski28 · Nov 11, 2013

tried to dream a dream
of all that I could be
somehow got lost in a land
where strippers danced for me

butters · Nov 11, 2013

i love a tree, you know i do
i'm really not a quitter
but when the autumn comes around
i'm mired in leaf litter

UnderYourSpell · Nov 11, 2013

Tristesse2 said:
Peeling onions for your stew
Brings water to my eyes
But the butter in your spuds
Brings inches to your thighs.

todski28 said:
tried to dream a dream
of all that I could be
somehow got lost in a land
where strippers danced for me

butters said:
i love a tree, you know i do
i'm really not a quitter
but when the autumn comes around
i'm mired in leaf litter

Applause

UnderYourSpell · Nov 11, 2013

I'm getting very ratty
my thoughts are turning blue,
Just why visit the cinema
and talk the whole way through?!

UnderYourSpell · Nov 11, 2013

Through gritted teeth!

Madam, your child though delightful
and I'm sure is precious to you,
Is defiling the whole meat selection
by poking his fingers through.

Angeline · Nov 11, 2013

When times are hard or low
or when I seem to have made a mess
I turn the faucet off on no
and repeat yes and yes and yes.

UnderYourSpell · Nov 11, 2013

Angeline said:
When times are hard or low
or when I seem to have made a mess
I turn the faucet off on no
and repeat yes and yes and yes.

See I knew you could do it!

twelveoone · Nov 11, 2013

A breast
He who aims
for a breast
neglects the other
on the chest

original:
ABREAST

He who aims
to keep abreast
is for ever
second best.

and bumper sticker (really, I've seen it)
Co-existence
or no existence.

PS. I'm not sure Hein's stuff scans.

Angeline · Nov 11, 2013

twelveoone said:
A breast
He who aims
for a breast
neglects the other
on the chest

original:
ABREAST

He who aims
to keep abreast
is for ever
second best.

and bumper sticker (really, I've seen it)
Co-existence
or no existence.

PS. I'm not sure Hein's stuff scans.

The bumper sticker you've seen is actually a Grook that was created by Piet Hein. And I don't think the form is intended to be scanned. It's more about aphorisms and rhyme than any particular rhythm. If you read a bunch of Grooks by him you'll see that they have a variety of structures, though all are short. I think the longest one I've ever seen from him is around eight lines.

UnderYourSpell · Nov 11, 2013

twelveoone said:
A breast
He who aims
for a breast
neglects the other
on the chest

original:
ABREAST

He who aims
to keep abreast
is for ever
second best.

and bumper sticker (really, I've seen it)
Co-existence
or no existence.

PS. I'm not sure Hein's stuff scans.

Three men and a girl
four abreast;
one man dips out
but not the rest!

todski28 · Nov 24, 2013

want to thank the boss
in a proper way
but naughty images
take my mind astray

UnderYourSpell · Nov 24, 2013

todski28 said:
want to thank the boss
in a proper way
but naughty images
take my mind astray

Naughty thought of me?
enough of your teases,
must admit this wetness
certainly means that it pleases!

todski28 · Nov 24, 2013

tsk tsk

thoughts have shifted
from naughty to obscene
probe them deeply now
think I have to cream...

UnderYourSpell · Jun 12, 2016

bumpety bump

UnderYourSpell · Jun 9, 2019

bumpety bump

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