Category: Poetry

The games that we play all have rules To make sure that we play them right. There are rules for football and soccer And rules for conducting a fight. There are rules for playing board games, Rules for Checkers and Chess and Clue, But I haven’t been able to find One single rule for peek-a-boo.

Mommy makes me go to bed When I’m still wide awake, Then makes me get up in the morning When I’m still sleepy, for goodness’ sake! Bedtime is not something that many children look forward to. It is difficult for even the most experienced parent to make bedtime a happy time. When my children were […]

Adam and Eve lived in Paradise, There was nothing that they couldn t do. No parents to nag or rooms to keep clean And of course they had no curfew. They spent all their time naming critters, When they weren t too busy at play. With nothing forbidden for them to do A word never […]

As I lay watching stars last night I got a funny feeling, Had monsters come into my room And gobbled up my ceiling?

Valentine’s Day has come and gone And I am feeling kind of blue. I got a hundred Valentines But not a one of them from you. I checked my mailbox every day And it is kind of hard to do. But it would have been worth the trip If I had gotten one from you. […]