The woman in the birdhouse
This is a little poem
She has lots of friends
She is rarely alone
Her friends are the sea, the sun and the birds
that fly the sky
To know her is to love her
About this I would not lie

She is a teeny tiny woman
Otherwise how would she fit in her house
So you must believe me if I tell you she is
as small as a mouse

She is a bit peculiar
We are all, don’t you say
But she is in a good way so
If we come to visit we all want to stay

There is a woman in the birdhouse
and we all like her just that way

Sand
Footprints sinking
Waves carrying them out to sea
Toes for fish to nibble on

Man
Chestnut brown
Sunglasses
Long legged gait
walking in the surf

The Angry Monster Chicken Children
are causing Havoc on the Farm
They are not very big, but they are
causing lots of harm
They are rustling up the cattle
They are hiding in the barn
Jumping from the rafters
on top of horses’ backs, riding madly through the pastures
Whoa! They are Amuck in the horse’s stalls and on the Farm!

Who knows next what they will be after.

They say they are tipping cows in the

meadow at night.

Richter scale mischievous and the ultimate in devious.

A  sleeping tipping cow never puts up a fight.

There are ( I think) six or seven

But there could (by the mess) be eleven of them

A thromping and a stomping everything in sight.

Hopefully they will grow out of this

Otherwise I would not want to know from this

Angry Monster Chicken Children
“RUN FOR YOUR LIFE”

(I think they are distantly related to Miss Id)

I have a tooth
I had a tooth
Now it wiggled and got loose.

It wiggled and it wiggled and
Squished back and forth on my gum
All I had to do was push just one more
time with my tongue.

I have a tooth
I had a tooth
Now it wiggled and got loose

I am going to stick my wiggled tooth

under my pillow and see what I can win.

Another tooth , a bigger tooth

I can feel it coming in

Now I had a tooth and now

I have a tooth

It is a good way to begin.

Today is Wednesday
My students are like monkeys
hanging from trees
The best you can do is say
“today we are learning,” oh
never mind …..just pass them the
bananas, please.

Going through life
thinking that I had the whole
but not really knowing if I ever did

Is it something that you catch out of the corner of your eye and then it is gone ?

Glimpses

There once was a little Queen Bird
She used to wander around without
Saying a word for she had found
It is more profound to say nothing
Than insist that she always be heard.

If you are a physical being
Then you should have to be
Somewhere at any given point in Time.

The best place where you are is
Where you are
Otherwise you are missing the point

The whole point of being.

If you are always looking back
Trying to redo have you have done
Then you are missing the point
Of being where you are now

Energize now
Hold the strands of energy
in your hands
Flow from one thing to the next
in your day

At the end
Lay down
Close your eyes
Float into sleep

In a word…….
Purple
Stained
Fingers
Eaten
As
They
Are
Picked
One
By
One

(they were really mulberries but I liked the sound of

boysenberries better)