Hi Folks,
I wish I had time to respond to everyone's kind words and to comment and give the accolades you all deserve but we are packing up a household so it's all I can do to get a poem in. I haven't even had time to savor everything but I am looking forward to it. I hope we can keep these up in the archives for more than a month. I am honored to be on the same board with such talent and eloquence.
I spent way too much time on the following silliness but it was fun.
~Deb
The Literal Child
Let’s go on a journey into the mind of a precocious child
with an imagination of word notions skipping free and wild.
If a man is an actor and a woman an actress
then why do grownups look alarmed
when she pauses to profess,
“I want to grow up and be an adulteress!”?
You may see Sir ip slipping down
Pancakes or Cinderella’s gown.
A honey moon is made by bees
sewn inside a buzzing hiding place
within the swaying trees.
Why doesn’t the shoe horn honk on Daddy’s shoes
when she dances on his heels?
Where does that toe-truck go when she stubs her little toe?
Do toe-trucks get flat tires or have Big Wheels?
Culottes, pronounced cool locks, is a girl with pretty hair.
A hypocrite an old woman who hates hip huggers that flair.
A cucumber, or cue comer is just some silly man
who comes over to play pool and drink her uncle’s beer.
Guerilla warfare in the summer, apes say, “Catch me if you can.”
They’re the real gorillas on the news in man masks and headgear.
A bald eagle is a poor, old bird
with no feathers on his head.
And babysitters sit on babies
until they’re almost dead.
Pressurizers are teachers that press eyeballs
shut on little kids that always talk.
Cowlicks are caused by cow licks
and we all know the moon can’t walk.
Apparently, is a parent named, Lee.
There’s no need to explain, explain
because it's plain to see.
Portray was the cafeteria food the poor kids got
that she hoped she’d never get.
But if she ever got one, she would not throw a fit
A comment is supposed to be a mint
that calms you down
except when taken by the grumpy grocer,
then it’s the other way around.
To translate means you were lost along the way
and that’s the reason why you’re late,
but now you know and it’s okay.
An eyesore is probably a sty.
And a detailer takes off tails
but she hasn’t reasoned why.
A body shop is where people go for casts and stitches.
A picnic on the beach is where you’ll likely find sand witches.
Perfume is the smell a cat makes when it purrs as it whispers.
Antagonize is the agonizing aunt with sharp chin whiskers.
Now her play time's over, she must get back to her chores
to sweat out all these goofy rhymes and cleans them from her pours.
~Deb
