Epigrams

I
these days poets from bohemia
are increasingly rare;
instead the halls of academia
have a less prosaic air.

II
the challenge of the epigram
is easy to discern:
make it short as a telegram
but harder to return.

III
when lovers embrace
by moonlight or by day
they hold tight in case
their loved one gets away.

IV
was it spin or substance
which sexed up Tony's dossier?
from this punter's distance
things can only get glossier.

V
Her hair is marmalade,
her breasts are toast;
honey in that sweet glade -
here comes the post!

John O'Donoghue

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