Monkey see,
Monkey do.
Did it see me
When I kicked you?
Entries from December 2006 ↓
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Monkey Shines
December 28th, 2006 — Poems for Children
My Best Friend
December 20th, 2006 — Poems for Grownups, Quickies
My wife ran off with my best friend
After someone saw her kiss him.
I don’t know just where they went
But I’m really going to miss him!
My Sneeze
December 14th, 2006 — Poems for Children
My teacher asked me;
“Goodness sakes, Bessie,
Just look at your arm,
Why is it so messy?”
It makes you wonder,
When they have to sneeze,
How teachers wipe off
The mess that it leaves.
It was quite a sneeze,
The worst of the day.
Kids that were close by
Complained of the spray.
Where else could I wipe
The gook a sneeze leaves?
No tissue or hankie,
And my [...]
Small Town
December 9th, 2006 — Poems for Grownups
When she lived in a small sized town
There were some things bound to occur
If she forgot what she was doing
Someone else would always tell her.
And if she couldn’t remember.
How late that she got home one night,
Lots of folks in town would mention,
What time she’d turned off her porch light.
If she had a casual date
With some [...]
It Could Have Been Worse
December 3rd, 2006 — Poems for Children
My sister bit into an apple:
An apple; red and round and firm.
Inside to her surprise she found
An ugly, wiggly, squirmy, worm.
To eat an apple with a worm
Had caused my sister much despair.
I told her it would have been worse,
Had she found only half a worm there!

Wayne Edwards is a native Texan, graduate of Texas A&M University, and retired Air Force officer. He lives, with his wife Ruth, on a fish farm in Texas, in an underground house he built himself. Wayne can be reached via e-mail at 