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Unicorns and Green Gorillas

August 12, 2026 

Sunspots, sarsaparilla
Laughter, sunset villas
Unicorns and green gorillas

Cynical people think sincerity's a pose
A cactus is a cactus 
A rose is a rose

Puffy cloudy billows
Playful peccadillos
Perfume on a pillow 

Cynical people think that love is a lie
Blaming the bucket
When the well runs dry

Critters chillin' Cali
Green and yellow valleys
Creepers cruisin' alleys

Cynical people shut their eyes real tight
The whole world sparkles
But they can't see the light 

by Richard W. Bray

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Dancing on Quasars

June 24, 2026 


Clickity wickity
Tickity tock
I talk to the trees 
And sing to the rocks

Lickity splickity
Knickity knack
The trees only laugh
The rocks all sing back

Hockity pockety 
Blippity blap
The sound of the sirens
Is my favorite trap

Snickity snackity
Whippity wap
I tickle my Cyclops
When he takes a nap 

Snoopity poopity
Goopity gap
My dog sings a ballad
And sits on my lap

Cookity bookity
Hoppity hip
When you’re dancing on quasars
You better not slip

by Richard W. Bray

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Frazzle Pazzle

December 6, 2025 

Whackadoodle 
Walk your poodle 
Eat a noodle
With some strudel 

Whoopsie daisy
Love your crazy
Loopy lazy
Doesn't faze me

Hunky dory
Drive your lorry
Sing a story
Don't ignore me

Under over
Four-leaf clover
Cliffs of Dover
Play with Rover

Prince and pauper
Lemon dropper
Happy hopper
Never stop her

Razzle dazzle
Frazzle pazzle
Words unravel
Happy travels

by Richard W. Bray

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Dance because you’re not a dancer

January 25, 2025 


I only have one thing to say
What are you gonna do today?

It's not a quiz
There's no wrong answer
Dance because you're not a dancer

Cook some eggs
Take a shower
Photograph the Eiffel Tower

Find a game
You like to play
Lollygag your time away

Have a beverage
With a friend
Read a novel to the end

Walk your dog
Smell some flowers
Sit around and talk for hours

Meet a deadline
With your team
Binge a show about a queen

Wax a roadster
Hike the hills
Debate the merits of free will

It's not about what others do 
Do the thing that's right for you

by Richard W. Bray

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Romp

July 23, 2024 


Eyes and hearts and thoughts and tongues and souls
Filling out the forms and playing roles

Lilies roses time and weeds and stones
Dancing dreaming walking all alone

Beauty sorrow wind and breath and joy
Living rousing romps of girls and boys

Love and truth and grief and spring and sun
Singing every day until you're done

by Richard W. Bray

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Frazzlepat

July 4, 2024 

Hyenas hustle
Curtains rustle
Candles flicker
Spirits snicker

What's that
Frazzlepat?
Jiggling bed's
Just in my head

Somewhere
Over the cuckoo's nest
I shut my eyes
But there isn't any rest

by Richard W. Bray

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Wystan and Emily

May 11, 2024 


life comes at me in rhythm
words come at me in rhyme
toil teaching wisdom
the only place is time

walk along the seashore
frolicking in the snow
tasting all the sunshine
existing as i go

Wystan and Emily
sang a sonnet just for me
silently throughout the years
it danced a journey to my ears

by Richard W. Bray


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Miscommunication

April 7, 2024 

Got a new snork vorple
It's really kuper-kippy
It keeps me wipple-wapple
When the wunk is wappy-wippy

I don't like your gornpop
You're such a norky noobler
The mips are full of zanzi-plips
Don't jim-jomp on the goobler

When I was young, we porpled
We confoobled for a song
But now the nukstips borbalize
And snirkbob all day long

Don't call me a fubble flooper
Just cuz I'm purpipsy
The dinder dob is nabby dab
Someday you'll bloop the blipsy

by Richard W. Bray

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Winkle and Wankle and Wunkle

September 2, 2023 


Winkle and Wankle and Wunkle
Got attacked by an angry old skunkle

Wankle and Wunkle and Winkle
We're quite overwhelmed by the stinkle

Wunkle and Winkle and Wankle
Took all of their change to the bankle

Wankle and Winkle and Wunkle
Bought a new house for their uncle

Wunkle and Wankle and Winkle
Have an auto that's purple and pinkle

Winkle and Wunkle and Wankle
Keep plenty of gas in the tankle

Wankle and Winkle and Wunkle
Dribble and pass and slam dunkle

Wunkle and Wankle and Winkle
Roller on skates at the rinkle

Winkle and Wunkle and Wankle
Often smell musty and dankle

by Richard W. Bray

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wishy washy boo hoo

May 9, 2023 

idiotic therapeutic 
wishy washy boo hoo
sticks and stones
Do words break bone?
crazy as a cuckoo

stop your sobbin 
silly robin
wings to fly 
beak for bobbin
skippin to my lu-lu

trigger warning
every morning 
scaredy cat
don't do that
just accept your boo boo

toughen up
buttercup
batter up
and to yourself 
be true true

by Richard W. Bray

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