Besides limericks, I’ve written sonnets, epodes, villanelles, song parodies, and one soliloquy. And each holiday season I cram Spelling Bee words into Christmas carols and holiday poetry. These are the top 25, based on Facebook likes, loves, and laughs. Click here to see them all, from the most recently-posted, or find your favorites below!
1. Soliloquy
2. Carol #14: The Nearly Twelve Pangrams of Christmas
4. Carol #25: I Saw Three Pangrams
5. Villanelle #1: My Tentative Valentine
6. Sonnet #9: My Cat, and my Case, Rest
8. Carol #8: Have a Tall Loblolly Christmas
10. Carol #28: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
11. Carol #9: They Came Upon a Midnight Clear
12. Sonnet #20: Pirate School Dropout
13. Carol #22: Sam Ezersky’s Coming to Town
14. Sonnet #16: The Iceman Goeth
15. Carol #26: Banjo and Baboon (to the tune of “Sleigh Ride”)
16. Villanelle #4: Vanilla Nell
17. ‘Twas the Night before Hanukkah
18. Carol #37: Orangutan (to the tune of “O Christmas Tree”)
19. Villanelle #3: Comfort Food
20. Epode #3: The Dancing Octopus
21. Sonnet #5: The Winged Walrus
22. Sonnet #14: The Chemical Debutante Ball
23. Song #3: Giddy Long Little Doggie
