Best Down The Pike Poems

It was in the mists of morning, beneath the rising morning sun,
We had come to conquer Ft. Langley, It was me and Al and John.
We...

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there is a sentiment amongst the most public of believers &
even those nonbelievers who still hold some sick
compassion for them…
these
“privately religious,”
who do not parade around...

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Mona Lisa has worn that mystical smile on her mug for over 500 years!
Who is this mysterious lady who at us from The Louvre benignly...

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Let the sun dance on your bodies
Dream, People, Dream
Let the sun dance on your bodies
A new song comes down the pike 
We'll be ready for...

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Quotes:
1. "Doubt is not the absence of faith - certainty is!"  Karen Armstrong

therefore

2. "It is impossible to be a true Christian and not have...

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The Brown Eyed Calf

Now ol’ Dan was a calf roper
Won lots of cash that way
He’d rope at county fairs and such
A big boost to his...

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The grief that you brought to me
Is unparalleled to a burning malady

Each miniscule reckoned; nimble spur
Comrades' perturbed; peeled exterior

A visceral feline that's so endeared 
Suddenly...

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I think it is okay not to be the brightest bulb in the tool shed.
And I know I would only use that phrase in self...

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I love to eat most everything
Once I start it's just hard to stop
Almond milk's good on cereal,
Without the almond cream on top!

I love to devour...

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My Pantry

I have a kitchen pantry,
Narrow though it is,
Still contains some sterno,
For the millennium’s world’s end.

I’ll not tell you how long ago
Its contents got organized,
And...

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Some folks are misguided to sincerely believe
That what they hear on the news is fact, indeed,
I hope this poem will help you, friend, to relieve
That...

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(which above frolicsome gambit I mastered)
After mine wife
asks for this, that
or something else rife
with intent to provide barrel of laughs,
(likened to barrel of monkeys)
yours truly...

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Because some troubles and faults left by last administration, the incumbent can try to restore or redress. But for some other questionable moves beyond recantation,...

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thank you mr. obama &
mr. sarkozy 
for revealing to us your humanity
in denouncing the insanity of 
mr. netanyahu,
even if it cost you both major points...

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Life Is...
Dr. Jim Martin


Life is what you make it,
Or so the saying goes.
Does it, however, matter
What the enemy throws?

Surely one should be on guard
And great...

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