We grapple with great mysteries “What makes a saint or sinner?” But the deepest question that we ask Is often, “What’s for dinner?” We like to set the style We live to make the scene But nothing is so comforting Quite like the old routine Each morning when I think of work Make my bed [...]
The tender art of compromise Is two steps short of stealing What you cant get from standing tall You might just get from kneeling Be prudent in the strategy And tactics that you pick You might get, for the carrot What you dont get from the stick Delay the confrontation For as long as you [...]
Once in every while when I’m feeling so inclined I think about the things I thought Would never cross my mind Monkeys typing Shakespeare The sound of Browns’ fans cheers Events that could not happen Not in a million years I close my eyes and ponder Or find a quiet place Ignite imagination And let [...]
Because I have a lack of trust In all things from the media To do research on Barbara Bush I clicked on Wikipedia And what I saw up on my screen It came as quite a shock Instead of typing Barbara Bush Id typed in Barbara Bach Had I been standing by a cliff A [...]
I know somewhere there’s someone Who’s never laced a skate By the law of averages There can be no debate Someone, somewhere who doesn’t know A slapshot from a wrister Who’s never tried to make A goalie of his sister Who’s never had a coach Who’d work ‘em tell they burn Who taught them playing [...]
His approval just hit 50 Now, isn’t that a switch Half the country’s crazy But it’s not apparent which The smirking class on CNN Just can’t believe their eyes Rasmussen must only poll Bots and Russian Spies Those folks who are enlightened In the more diverse dominions Were too busy resisting To offer their opinions [...]
The comment most du jour (Which means it’s all the rage) Says we should not give Kim Jong-Un A place on the world’s stage He’s not an Ayatollah A Merkle or a Thatcher And talks with him directly Would only give him stature It seems to me the place he’ll have Is just the one [...]
When Im feeling worried I spend those troubled nights Counting up my blessings from Our countrys Bill of Rights The document that states the things Beyond the rulers reach Are freedoms of assembly Worship, press and speech It further goes to say That there shall be no circumvention Of rights our famous framers Didnt list [...]
I bought the Pyeong Chang package My cable system sells me So I can see who wins ten minutes After Twitter tells me So I subscribed to streaming To try and get the feed But they didnt think a schedule Was something I would need I wanted to watch curling (I love to hear them [...]
Each year my happy clients Kindly offer me the chance To help them with their words of love As the pursue romance They tell me who they’re pining for And then I make some guesses For, though I’ve never seen them They are all my Beatresses The custom poems I write Can be sublime and [...]