Meaty Elk

The word is wapiti (an elk)

Never put colorful graffiti
On the side of a wapiti.
It will make him less meaty
Like a bowl with one Wheatie.

Campy!

The word is: campy (comically exaggerated)

By a cabin in the cold morning air
I yelled "hello-o-o, is anyone there?"
A campy echo came back
To that little brown shack.
It said, "just me, a big grizzly bear."

OK, so I changed this poem just a tiny bit!

A new word for your vocabulary is coomb (a narrow valley)

The new bride met the groom
Who's name was [Ben] Boom
At the end of a long coomb
Next to President Grant's tomb.
We'll have to assume
She said va va voom
Since she's the one whom
Would soon make him vacuum,
Clean up the master bathroom,
And sweep with a bristle broom
Every dirty, dusty, dingy room.
This bachelor met his doom.

Lollop At Your Own Risk

A new word for the day is lollop (to loll, or lounge)

Don't ever try to whollop
Your kids when they lollop,
Or when they try to doll up
Like an English trollop.
Instead simply call up
A mean Sunrise Mall cop.

Grandpa Jensen

Dang that Prang

I am back with the word of the day. It is prang (to cause to crash)

The midnight train began to clang 
When the foul Sleepy Hollow gang
Rode up on palomino and mustang
Their blazing guns going bang, bang
Causing the chugging train to prang.
On Monday Loredo's church bells rang
As folks watched the desperadoes hang
While the town's choir heartily sang
Even kids watched the whole shebang.

Grandpa Jensen

Kent is Sorry!

The word is dilatory (tardy) Kent Blair was so sorry He made up a big story On why he was dilatory, For the dinner was done And he missed all the fun Even the chicken cacciatore. Grandpa Jensen

Mikie on his Trikie

The word is bikie (a biker) A young Anderson named Mikie Wanted to be a cool bikie. Heck's Angels didn't likie Mikie on his shiny red trikie And said "go take a hikie!" Grandpa Jensen

Let Your Glim So Shine!

The word is glim (a light, lamp) It's hard to sing a hymn with vim When your weak glim is too dim Even if you're a plump cherubim Perched on a tree limb with Jim. Grandpa Jensen

Hot Rolls

Try this word. Bap (a small bun, or roll)

If a sizzling hot bap
Lands in your lap,
Don't scream old chap.
Just tip your cap
And give it a tap.
Then go take a nap.

Turkeys can do genealogy?

Good Sabbath: A new word is Nixie (a female water sprite) There once was a turkey named Tom Who went to Ancestry.com. He found a Nixie in his line Who was an ancestor of mine, She was his mom's mom's mom.

A Huge Woman

Try this word. Zingy (enjoyably exciting)

I wonder if I shall ever see
A huge woman in the sea
Holding a torch thingy
That would be zingy,
She's the Statue of Liberty.

Oh Rubbish!

The word is dreck (rubbish)

I'm always a nervous wreck
When I find lots of dreck
On my redwood deck.
It's a pain in the neck,
Oh well, what the heck!

Grandpa Jensen

Hulla Baloo

The word today is hullabaloo (an uproar , or fuss)

If you sneak up behind a gnu
At the new Sacramento zoo
And scream boo!
He will charge you
Causing a hullabaloo
And you'll be scared too!

Bonjour!

Le mot (French for the word) of the day is zerk (a grease fitting) A young French soda jerk Wore a smile and a smirk As he greased a zerk In his prized pink '55 Merc. The engine began to perk, But then it went berserk. Alas, it just didn't work.

Gravitating Forces

A new word is syzygy (The straight line configuration of 3 celestial bodies; as sun, moon, and earth, in a gravitational system)

Once in a blue moon
On a hot day in June,
The moon and the sun
And Earth become one.
A syzygy in the afternoon.

gangrel on the lose

The word is gangrel (a vagabond)

There was a young lass named Joelle
Who was a famous traveling gangrel
She went far, she went wide
With an alligator by her side
As her protector and it worked out well.

Grandpa Jensen

Selling Poetry on E-Bay

The word of the day is doggerel (trivial, awkwardly written verse)

Grandpa Jensen always starts the day
Writing doggerel in a very trite way.
He writes of hippos, giraffes, and dogs,
Eels, elves, elk, foxes, and pollywogs,
And futilely tries to sell them on E-Bay.

19th Century Album

A unique new word is albumblatt (A short, light instrumental piano piece from the 19th century)

There as I sat at my grand piano
Playing sharps and some flats,
A pesky pint-sized gnat
Buzzed around my hat.
When I'd had enough of that,
Using my left hand I went splat!
With the other I played for my cat
A simple right-handed albumblatt.

Don't Geck the Speck

A new word is geck (to mock)

When Horton found the speck
All Whoville started to geck.
The pachyderm was a nervous wreck
But finally trumpeted, "what the heck,
That Seuss guy is really high tech,
So it's up to me to protect the fleck".

A Curch at Church

A new word. curch (a kerchief)

Next Sunday when you perch
On your pew made of birch
At the neighborhood church,
Be sure to join the search
For a lost polka dot curch
Left by good Sister Gurch