Wishful Thinking
I wish I were older. I wish I were you. You never do homework. You have better things to do. I wish I were younger. I wish I had your youth. I’m always doing housework, If you must know the truth. I wish I were older Without a bedtime. Just a couple hours longer, Is [...]
A Poem of a Pressing Nature
Whatever happened to gauze tops and broomstick skirts? Whatever happened to polyester? I like wrinkles in my pants and skirts, Said the number one iron detester.
My Parody of the Shrek Dance Party Finale
Hi everybody and welcome to the Shrekless dance party I’m going to take things down a little bit with one of my personal favorites. Don’t go changing. I’m watching TV. Don’t turn the volume down no more. I made it through the labyrinth. You know I made it through. Didn’t know how hard I’d work [...]
Facebook Poetry (or how many times can we slay the slain)
Okay, this will never go viral, but it entertained me and anyone who ran across it on my facebook wall for a couple of days. I just wanted to post it for posterity’s sake. Every day I’m chucklin’. Hey, that could be my new catchphrase. Hmm. First, my little plagiarizer of a daughter (Kidding, I [...]
Suppose you were to dig a hole straight through the Earth from Amman
While surfing on the web today, I found an interesting way to whittle away 10 minutes of my time from today’s post from Buzzfeed entitled Find Out Where You’d Be If You Dug Straight Through The Earth. I found out that there would be no more surfing on the web, more like a lot of sailing on [...]
The All Important Security Guard Slash Director of Traffic
Don’t you know who I am? I’m the All Important Security Guard Slash Director of Traffic. I could have a shorter title but this one is more graphic. It don’t fit the on the uniform but it’s all just the same. SECURITY is my middle name. Don’t you know who I am? My skills are [...]
Not the Brightest Crayon in the Box
I’m the last one standing with the Jenga blocks I can fix about anything, even grandfather clocks. I’ve been known to shadow box with the best of the jocks But I’m not the brightest crayon in the box It started back in preschool, in Miss Mona’s art classes. I drew a lemon yellow sky and [...]
The Tortoise or The Hare?
Now here’s a little fable I’d like to share About the tortoise and the hare. It’s not the same old story ending with a moral More like the last one standing will win the laurels. Four kids in a house with its own court yard who think keeping a pet can’t be all that hard. [...]
The Night Frisbee Team – NaPoWriMo Day 5
Having no coordination for any sports deemed extreme They had an inpiration for a night frisbee team. They weren’t much for trouble making No desire to cavort But they stayed out way past curfew Illuminating their sport. They climbed the chain link fence into the school parking lot Their game was so intense and their [...]
