Category: Poetry

Consider the chameleon, The master of disguises. The enemy of insects, The butterfly despises. He sits on a leaf And turns himself green. And though he sits there, He seldom is seen. His tongue is long, And covered with sticky. He’ll eat any bug, He’s certainly not picky. If  there’s nothing there, When you look […]

A whole lot of things have changed From a hundred years ago. Lots of things have gotten fast. Other things have gotten slow. But there are things that never change. And there are problems we can’t solve. Little things we can’t get right. New ways never do evolve. If we could leave tomorrow For a […]

We were out in our back yard Roasting marshmallows on sticks, Around an outdoor fire pit, That our dad had made of bricks. That’s when we heard the siren And saw flames just down the street. Like moths drawn to a street light, We rushed there on flying feet. The owners, standing, watching The fire […]

“Would you be mad at me,” Jan asked, “For something that I didn’t do?” “Of course not,” said her teacher, “Why would I be mad at you?” “I got a new computer game And it was such a lot of fun; I’m glad you won’t be mad because I didn’t get my homework done.”

He was going on a diet And was going to lose some weight. He thought it would make it easy If he just watched the things he ate. His doctor said, for it to work, He’d see if he could make it fun. If, each three days, he’d diet two Then he could skip the […]