Beautiful
Easy-going
Sunshine
Satisfy
Inviting
Efficient
Categories:
bessie, in memoriam,
Form: Acrostic
Do the crickets in the trees
welcome a breeze
Can a frog on a lily pad
ever be sad
Would a fish choose to swim
if it were molasses he was in
Does a monkey grin
when he thinks of vice & sin
Should a zebra without stripes
just give up on life
And what about a female baboon
Does she bleed if pecked by a loon
Thought you might like to 'ruminate' on all of these
While I bring up dinner - straw and day-old cheese...
Categories:
bessie, animal, giggle, new year,
Form: Couplet
Old rusty Bessie just drove her last mile
Went with a sputter instead of a smile
No more brakes slipping
No more gears ripping
Think I'll relax with a horse for a while
Categories:
bessie, car, change, horse, recovery
Form: Limerick
Halloween Bessie had a bucket shop.
Where people traded stocks without a stop
Some were fraudulent, made up and wild.
I’m here to say it was crazy, child.
Halloween Bessie had a black cat with a twitch.
This familiar went by the name of Mitch.
Sold stocks and bonds and sometimes made a switch
Swindling investors without a hitch
Halloween Bessie had a fast game in town
She tore around in a broom and a nightgown
Many lost money, but she was the queen.
Of the investment world on Halloween.
Categories:
bessie, fantasy, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Sidecar Bessie was always ready for a ride.
Her new husband George steering at her side.
They will travel west in a day or so.
She rides like a trooper, her hair all a glow.
She paints it red, thinking it makes her young.
The smell of the country brings a bit of cow dung.
They travel up hills and down against the wind.
Bessie and George happily leaning into each bend.
We’ll go through Illinois and I-Oh-Way
George tells her at six a.m. on sweet Thursday.
She puts her money inside her bra
By Friday they are heading to Omaha.
She has bugs in her teeth and her skin is brown.
She is the finest new bride this side of Chicago Town.
Her husband is showing off their new status as they ride.
Giving her romantic glances, for she is his brand new bride.
They stop in several motels along the way
Finally ending up down Dallas Way.
They visit her relatives, and give them quite a show
Before heading back to the windy city of old Chicago.
Categories:
bessie, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
Oblivious she lay
on her bed in soft hay
Ole Bessie snores the whole night away
While I twist and turn
as my heart and pulse churn
at explosions that rock my stairway
Perchance I awake
before next the ground shake
Let me please be a cow ~ I do pray
Categories:
bessie, animal, fear, night, prayer,
Form: Rhyme
Pancake Batter Bessie
She makes flapjacks so fine
Avoiding corn syrup
With Tabasco, liver and onions sublime.
We try to stop her
But she is obtrusive and a ghost
Where we make our own batter
We hide it with our toast.
For Bessie will take that batter
And add extra stuff galore.
Peanut butter and sausage
Corn, pickles, oranges and more.
Bessie empties our pantries in the middle of the night
And grills up inventive pancakes that fill every counter in sight.
Our mother has asked her to stay out of her kitchen.
Pancake Batter Bessy’s creative juices can’t for they are always itch’n.
Categories:
bessie, 4th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Bessie the cow
a prizewinning specimen,
has sadly relinquished
her gold rosette
Ruby red ribbons
of congealing blood
coat the floor
of the abattoir
The silly cow
ignored the bull,
farmer Fred’s freezer
will be full!
Ribbon Contest
Sponsored By Line Gauthier
3/25/19
Categories:
bessie, animal, death,
Form: Free verse
Bessie, out hiking, had to pee,
She glanced about, choosing a tree;
To her distress
She made a mess:
Windward, she’d squatted, not alee.
Categories:
bessie, humor,
Form: Limerick
I love my car called Bessie
Although she really is quite messy
All the doors are pretty rusty
Interior it is so dusty
Once she was a lovely blue
But now she's just a faded hue
The tyres are right down on their tread
And when I stop I feel such dread
One day a guy he came on by
My Bessie he did want to buy
I told him no, I love my Bessie
Even if she is quite messy
Categories:
bessie, age, car, care, color,
Form: Couplet
My comrade -
was
a candy apple red steed.
I would admire
the way the sun
would catch and sparkle
across her bars,
marvel over
the grand Ferris wheel
in proportion
to her two small children.
Some days
we would don
the sound
of my sea foam flip flops,
galloping,
I would let
the rough cement
guide us
as
I rode
on,
a mad train west.
Categories:
bessie, childhood, imagination, life, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse