Best In Spite Of The Fact Poems

Six sick skunks of one stinking litter
get startled by a fox; five of the six sick skunks scamper.
But one of the six sick skunk siblings is no quitter.
In spite of the fact he is the littlest,
there's not one thing that will this small sick skunk...

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Achooo!
It begins, almost always, with a sneeze, 
Which, in some cultures, 
Invites blessings, 
But, in some others, a curse,
As it’s held to be ominous!
Blessing or curse, soon the frequency
And the decibels increase—
Incredibly, irritatingly, inconveniently, and embarrassingly!

I wonder if it is linguistically appropriate
To call it a...

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I know I act annoyed or put out when you call me frequently
during the day in spite of the fact your only doing it because
you miss me. Yet you still place me on a pedestal.

I know at times I complain about something you cooked in...

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He comes, a seaside golem,
walking like Frankenstein’s monster
because sand has filled the crack in his
behind, and his feet are shod in at least
two pounds of beach.
He carries his pail and shovel.

“Mommy, I have fun!” he chirps.

And I love him in spite of his sandy behind,
in...

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There are moments
When I find myself wishing
Yearning to be something I am not
Someone who serves Him
With never a doubt or sin
Someone who knows Him
Better than they know themselves

I wish I could say, my friend,
That I am a perfect Saint
A Christian so flawless and faultless
That I...

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We are primates, one and all
And our heritage is not from the fall.
The primate group is where we’re from
And no matter how far we’ve come
We owe our past through ties of time
And that’s the purpose of this rhyme.

We are a great ape, just like the...

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America the beautiful, where are your friends?
They have left you to find some other ends;
You who once stood for all that was right,
Are now only seen as a fading light.

You once were the head but now are the tail,
For greatness you had has now grown...

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Here is a story that’s hard to forget
A beauty skin product from an old barnyard pet
He calls it Heal Fast and it’s made from pig lard
From the fat little pigs that he kept in his yard
It heals anything from acne to burns
And of jars that...

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Hamas killers would the wall scale 
An Israel intelligence fail 
But revengeful war
To settle that score
Is rampage that veils this detail

Dropping bombs with impunity
Kills all kinds of humanity
A terrorist's act
In spite of the fact
Hamas hides in community...

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Some do this because they
are good at it and some do this
simply because they can

And so to have excelled and
both had an affinity and natural 
ability to do it since school

Lucky to posess a high I.Q and 
university grade education

Who do it merely it for...

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There has been a tragedy in my life,
And no, it’s not, my lovely wife,
And if it was, I would not say,
Because I’m still alive today,
And planning to remain that way.

No the tragedy is, I have to admit,
I no longer believe in religions remit,
We all have...

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You won't be here when the lilacs bloom,
You won't breathe their sweet perfume;
Instead my love, you'll follow your star,
To fight with passion another man’s war.
Skimming the air, the swallows fly low,
Over the battle where patches of snow
Mingle with mud and stains of blood,
Reaping the tide...

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This is the Second in a series that I wrote for my son a few years back.  I wrote the first and he asked for more. I think they got a little better with each one, but am also a little biased.  ...

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S - Sunsets and sunrises are all the best that this world can offer
P - Parading of the many opportunities that breathe for us, so like
R - Reasons to shed off our gloomy masks and share the happiness with
E - Everybody else, as what would...

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So many times by my husband I have been told
that I do too much all at once,
But little does he know
that if not by me the job just would not get done.
No matter how sick and exhausted I may be
I find that I must still...

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