Entries from September 2023 ↓

Consider the snail kite A bird of great speed. Which is really a trait That he doesn’t need. Up there on air currents Without effort he sails. But when he attacks All he catches are snails. With claws that can rip And a beak that can bite. The snails that he eats Hardly put up […]

“Be an early bird,” Mother said, “The worm is Early Bird’s reward.” I have some thoughts, along that line, I’d like to mention in regard. The sunrise, I can live without, I never really cared for worms And Mom in case you didn’t know Those wiggly slimy things have germs!

I like to make a funny face To see how funny I can be. I like to do it most of all When Dad takes photographs of me. He sets us kids all in a row And says that we should all say cheese. That’s when I make the kind of face That Grandma says, […]

Teacher made me write a poem She said I had to make it rhyme. She gives me hard stuff all the time I wrote, “I think I’ll never see A grade as pretty as a B.” She wrote, “You’re right, you got a D!”

I thought I’d get a “C” Instead I got an ”A” Now I’ve got the giggles I don’t know what to say. It’s such a lovely thing I’ll hold my “A” up high I’ll float away with it And ride it to the sky. I know what Dad will say, “If A’s are so much […]