Poeticous Logo
en
English Español Français Italiano
Donal Mahoney

Donal Mahoney

Bachelor’s Song

When will you understand
it’s all about me.
The world we live in
 
whirls around my axis.
Once you understand
I am the Sun
 
we can get married.
Until that happens,
step aside while I
 
hunt for the one
who truly understands
it’s all about me,
 
the one who knows
the world we live in
whirls around my axis.
 
She must be pretty.
That’s how I see it.
Take it from me.
 
Donal Mahoney

Other works by Donal Mahoney...
At Dawn in the Forest

When the dogwoods bloom pink and white blossoms create canopies of joy. Donal Mahoney
The Drought

You drive down the same country road every day at dawn and see through plumes of dust
Metastasis

I am sorry to hear the news. I lost it when I heard about hers and now to hear about yours. I’m livid at times, peaceful rarel… If you prefer, I won’t forward em…
Alice’s House

Redbud and dogwood have blossomed above the tulips and jonquils wher… Alice’s house used to be. A possum and raccoon nose around where the garage was before the to…
A Grand Buffet

Maury’s wife frets about growing old withering up and sagging so it’s up to Maury
It Takes a Little Old Lady

It was always a lovely yard, the grass green, never a weed. Dandelions in spring were an endangered species as soon as she spotted them.
 1
 1
As Wally Explained on the Locked Side Later

Another day at the zoo and Wally’s new job was to feed the ap… Old Stanley had fed the apes for 40 years and loved the job but told Wally he was retiring.
Bellowing by Email

It’s not good when two disturbed p… with little in common disagree by… on something important. Tone and content can get raucous and make matters worse because eac…
A Western in New York

Sagebrush on Broadway a Big Mac wrapper tumbles softly down the street Donal Mahoney
Children Are Why We Need Higher Taxes

Steven is a retired teacher disturbed by the problems he sees in education. Schools weren’t perfect when he was teaching but they were better than they are today. He has ideas for impro...
Moment in a Marriage

After all these years my wife at the ironing board, perfect in panties. Donal Mahoney
Pygmies and the Dalai Lama

I don’t know the answer but perhaps the Dalai Lama knows the final resting place of pygmies who live in jungles unexplored and never hear a sermon from
 1
Election Year

It doesn’t matter who wins. Life will go on as it has in previous years when others have won and have taken charge.
 1
Bumfuzzled in St. Louis

I don’t know why my wife and I are up at four in the morning sitting in recliners drinking coff… staring at half-hour commercials claiming to cure everything
A Not-Too-Jolly Santa Claus

I know this story to be true because I know Ruben and he wouldn’t lie even though Ruben and I have never met. He lives in Alabama in a hollow and I live in St. Louis. But that makes no ...



Top