A day without laughter
Is a day wasted, said
The great Charlie Chaplin
And so I have pasted
A series of good jokes
On my fridge's full door
The office wall, bedroom,
Plus the ceiling and floor
I don't need to read them
I smile at the paper
If I need a cheer up
The laughter comes later
I'm writing to tell you
That's what you, too, should do
May his wish for smiling
And more laughter come true.
-ends-
In Praise Of Short Poems
The most memorable verses are just one verse of four lines or a rhyming couplet.
I reached the natural end of this poem here. Four verses. Concise. Simple message and joke. Then I had afterthoughts and added another four verses about writing jokes for birth, marriage and death. I have on two or three memorable occasions been told by President Edward at Toastmasters International speakers' club, Online Dynamic, that my speech was long, over time, and complicated, a mixture of two messages. I had two speeches.
As I began to write more verses of this poem, I thought, this could be a second poem about jokes from birth to death via weddings. I cut the the extra verses and made them into a second poem.
That was a great improvement. If I had a longer spot, I could read both as one long poem or two short poems. Or one poem and the other as the encore, but on a related theme to the first. A good message for myself and other poets, and event organisers, and book editors.
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