Best Perk Up Poems

My Perk

When the daylight comes I know,
after hours of rest,
I will have another go
doing what is best.

Use my time to finish work.
After this is done,
then...

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Remember years ago, when you were fit
Now you can't stand too long, before you have to sit
And all the times that you ran to catch...

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If finding good times is your wish
And poetry your favorite dish,
Then visit us. The soup is on!
It’s piping hot and never gone.

And with so much...

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Another lame duck
That ran out of luck
Encountered financial loss
A failure at work
Now seen as a jerk
He happens to be the boss!

Employees revolt
His feathers will moult
His...

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This evening never seemed so nice, at the end of a daylight breeze....
Sunshine without thick humidity
Where the crickets sing around me
A break from gray filled...

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~~~ A Day In The Life ~~~


Up at dawn and off to work.
Garden center today , that was a perk.
Watched two hummingbirds in mating dance.
Almost...

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Somedays I feel like I'm surrounded by bars and bricks
encaged on a stage in tar that sticks.
There's an agonisingly unfamiliar reflection in the mirror,
as my...

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Perennials bloom around me; their fragrance permeates the air.

As I read a novel in the shade, my hammock sways.

Radiant is this garden spot, for the...

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Year after year, young people inspire me.
The freshness of youth brings forth curiosity.
Diversity and personality scream, it seems –
Noisily, boisterously, playfully, hope knocks.
Each child has...

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TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE

I’m giving up, can’t take no more, I’ve reached the final straw,
How do you find a flamin’ job when you’ve turned...

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Long ago
a year or so
I received accolades a plenty
I won this, and I won that
I was on top of it all
I was almost the whole...

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A gun so nice to hold
Firm grip from one so bold

Shiny bullets fingers do enfold
To only the brave guns are sold

Not only to the brave...

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His monkey-fascination made him own a “monkeyrium”
There, monkeys and cousin apes in their gladdening crusade freely reign
Unlike the sea creatures in the imprisoning aquarium
The funny...

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Abandoned as a child believed to be no more than five, the matron of the orphans home, was...other than my mom...
The first to have to...

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Ive forgotten what it feels like 
to be wanted, needed
He certainly does not speak of 
his need in words
He does not show it in his...

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