Category: Arts & Culture

Happiness

Happiness Happy – is a state of mind Sometimes awful hard to find Something that cannot be mined And, just like love, is sometimes blind, Happy – cannot be designed And, often cannot be defined With money – frequently entwined But – cannot clearly be combined, Happy – if...

Moving On

Moving On The parking lot was full today And along both sides the road A tribute, in a trifling way To the seeds that someone sowed, He didn’t want to go inside In there he’d be – a gap And so he stood outside the door And respectfully removed...

Modern Mother Goose II

Modern Mother Goose II Mother Hubbard went to her cupboard Her doggy, from hunger, near prone She was no bluffer, that Banker would suffer For refusing her loan for a bone, Humpty-Dumpty subpoenaed them all For “malice aforethought” They should have known that he would fall And the destruction...

Pussy-Willow

Pussy-Willow Where the south sun shines And starts the melt And plays its warming rays And bonny breezes billow, Where tufts of grass are greening And insects strive to stir An early fly will stretch and lie On a neat and natural pillow, Where I am pleasantly reminded Why’th...

Love’s Smile

Love’s Smile Love can be a song You sing to let you in It can lead you into romance It can lead you into sin, Love can be clear ecstasy If you always put it first The sweetest, fullest taste of wine That quenches nature’s thirst, Love can be...

Carousel

Carousel Time’s your ticket And life’s your chance On a carousel Where the ponies prance, A merry-go-round At ‘Livings Fair’ White-horse of wisdom Dark-horse of despair, An indigo bridle Let’s you do as you dare A stampeding stallion A mild-mannered mare, A Blue-horse called love A Gray-horse called age...

Ode To My Molly

Ode To My Molly All I have left is a collar And a well worn metal dog-tag I don’t have my beautiful doggy With the tail I used to make wag, But I know I always can find her In the mirror of my mind And when I’m tramping...

Who are the masters?

Who are the masters? Who are the real masters? Are the humans the ones who tell the animals what they do? Are the animals the ones who show the humans how to do things? Who really knows? Maybe we all have a little master in us, Even animals, The...

Where do we stand?

Where do we stand? Where do we really stand on the tower? Most maybe on the bottom, Doesn’t mean you look down on them, Some maybe in the middle, Doesn’t mean that they’re better than others, Some are on the top, Still doesn’t matter, We shouldn’t even be thinking...

If And If

If And If Though it’s early in the New Year They’re already after tax Though my “bottom line” is zero And my Cards are at their max, My T4 will tell the terrible truth I just didn’t earn enough For champagne taste and caviar Instead of budgeting for stuff,...