Carpe Diembryo! Two and One Third Dozen Eggcentregg Ovaviews (Clutch One)

  Below are snapshots and eggcompanying verses 

  summing up two and a third dozen historical and

  world events from the point of view of one Mme 

  L'Egghorn, the matriarch ovaseeing the brood of 

  laying hens poetaster and illustrator Ulysses Poe 

  keeps in his side yard at his Silver Spring, MD 

  home. Rest assured they'll not be the last. 

  

 (To view any imegge at a larger size, click on it.) 

 

 

 Gaol 

 Stalegg, gulegg: 

 take your pick.

(Each way, you're up 

 some despot's crick.)

.

 

 Wired 

 Eggspertise 

 is what it takes.

 (Such eggsploits never 

 suffer fakes.)

 Eiverest 

  

 This eggspedition 

 nears the top --

 though many more 

 wind up a flop.

 Drumpf 

 He's eggnorant 

 past all compare --

 and still I can't 

 get past Herr's hair.

Herman

 

 Ishmael's call'd 

 Queggquegg's friend.

(Ish dodged his shipmate's 

 soggy end.)

 Disney 

 Goeuffy: he's 

 M. Mouse's pal.

 (You know that lot: 

 D. Duck et al...?)

 Dualism 

 What truly dost thou 

 think thou art...?

 Yeah, you, Monsieur 

 Rene Deggcartes...?

  Maroon 

  In Stacpool's tome 

  The Blue Leggoon

  you'll find few blue leggumes 

  bestrewn.

B'roe'dway 

"Alleggro" 

(Dick 'n' Oscar's bill)

 weren't saved by 

 Eggnes (Ms. de Mille).

Meggsico

 

 Uno, dos, tres: 

"Three Ameggos."

(Cellulovoids 

 ain't no Legos.)

  Divide 

  

  You'd sic the red 

  against the blue...?

  That leggacy 

  shall earmark you.

    Lit Crit 

    

    Ambegguity 

    boasts types;

    seven -- count 'em! -- 

    Empson* hypes.

         *William Empson

     Cole 

     What might Porter 

     really mean

     by "End the Mere(n)gge! 

     Beggin the Begguine!"...?

      Arthur

 

     Eggscalibur's 

     a mythic sword.

     Who springs it, 

     kingship's his reward.

    Bindi 

    Record rains 

    in Beggladesh

    have Hindus howling, 

   "What a mesh!"

     Anita 

    

    La dolce vita: 

    taste life's sweets!

    (And grabba loada 

    Eggberg's teats!)

     

       Myth 

      

      Eggcarus 

      pooh-poohs the sun

      and falls, when all's 

      been said 'n' done.                                     

                                              

     Thirty Lova  

    

    Eggassi 

    weds better half 

    as Andre marries 

    Steffi Graf.

      Ikura 

     

     At left's a caviar parade.

     (Is something AWOL...? Roe v Wade...?)

     In any case, what Gertrude* knows

     is: roes are roes are roes...are roes.

          * Poet Gertrude StEin

   Little 

    

    Malcolm Eggs 

    by brothers shot.

    (We always kill 

    the best we've got.)

                                                               

  

   Volcano 

  Crack an Ova 

  east of Java...?

  That's no runny egg. 

  That's lava!!

    Eggstinction

 

    The next egglipse...? 

    We've nowt to fear --

    unless Sol fails 

    to reapppear...(!)

      The Eggle 

     

     "The Eggle has landed: 

     'tis Henkind's great leap."

     (Those stairs, for us single hens...? 

     Wa-a-ay, wa-a-ay too steep.)

      Hals 

     

     Who's the portret 

     schilder star

     who limns 

     "The Laughing Caviar"...?

   

   Goshen 

   

  Listen to 

  ol' pharaoh cuss

  as Moses makes 

  his Eggsodus.

     

    Quiz 

   "Each Mar-a-Leggo 

    document:

    my trophy," 

    presses PrEisident ___?___.

         

     Vamp 

   

     Veronegga Legg 

     sports "peek-a-boo" hair.

     Guardian angel...? 

     Or dEivil-may-care...?

   Ceta

 

  La La Land leading man 

  Greggory Pegg's

  made mad marking Moby -- 

  sans one of his legs.