Bright And Early Poems

This is a time for gathering side by side,
Frustrations set aside by the riverside.
Step off the roller coaster of life,
Spend time with the people in your life.

Set up the fryer and inject the turkey.
Dinner prep starts bright and early.
Mac and...Read More

I only tell of sunny hours...
Break time under cloudy showers;
Work day’s done after dark --
Bright and early I’m a lark.

No complaints, I like my day job.
(Despite getting called Thingamabob.)
Feels good sunbathing all day,
My happy round face on display.

I’m of ancient...Read More

Today
I email
I google
I print
But at night the gremlin arrives
He lives deep in my cupboard
And when he is ready
comes out of the shadows
malevolence in his eyes


I awake bright and early 
The sun still asleep
Today I have deadlines to meet
When I push...Read More

Awoken was the farmer one bright and early dawn,
Restless and he couldn’t sleep,
So he thought he’d mow the lawn.

He went into the garden and got down upon his knees,
Much to surprise to the farmer’s wife,
He was cutting it with his...Read More

A respectable girl was she; or so she appeared to be 
Living alone in her dear little cottage at number seventy three

Each day she left home bright and early, as she walked to the railway station
Awaiting the train she would...Read More

Up bright and early at the crack of dawn
Seems that's been my routine forever
Don't wanna waste a single damn moment
Don't wanna miss a single thing ever

Time seems forever when we're wee folks
Old age is a bunch of decades away
Then all...Read More

The Morning Rush

Early to bed early to rise, makes one healthy and wise....
So here I am,  wide awake and awaiting sunrise....

The millionaires, they sleep on, not a surprise...
If they awake before noon, that itself is an event.....

For even when...Read More

Hopeless 
By Samuel K Byrd

A hot meal, a cold bed, and hopes
that tomorrow will be a better day
unemployed house foreclosed and the repo-man
arrived bright and early yesterday
tax cuts, tax incentives, stimulus package
all a little too late
get in line; get a...Read More

1/13/16


Waking up bright and early, and allready using the percolator
Figure out what is and isn't worth the labor
Learn what's greater
Before a possible outcome is determined later
Don't ever try to put people, animals or the Earth in danger
Otherwise I'll take you...Read More

Wake up bright and early
Eat a hearty breakfast
Pack up a yummy lunch
Check all of your fishing gear
Put on your oldest clothes and favorite fishing hat
Don’t forget the sunscreen
Time to get a move on, while the fish are still really biting
Quick...Read More

The days were getting long, and the Fourth of July was coming up, soon.
With the City Park clean, a better raise might come, so very long over due.
The Sheriff of Crazyland was cleaning pigeon poo, too often, lately. True!
He was...Read More

How pitiful is my little friend,
the dweller of the wood.
He has much love to lend,
and his disposition is good.

He lives in a treetop haven,
away from the truculent masses.
No kinder heart lives in stagnation,
as he watches the lover as he passes.

If...Read More

I'm hopeful that maybe tomorrow will be better than today.
I just know that maybe tomorrow you'll see the error of your way.

Maybe Tomorrow you'll say all the things that Ive so long to hear.
Finally there will be a smile in...Read More

What a Day.

Bright and early
every waking minute
passes me by without a look.

Invisible to the world.
All that is seen and unseen,
Only an empty vessel
carrying on a non-existent life.

Soaring deep within
the vessel we call life.
It is blank and absent
like minds lost in...Read More

First u get 
Married
And then u 
Have kid one

Then u say 
The famous words
"This is it, 
We're done."

By the time
U have kid two
U think, "what 
Will we do?"

Once u have
Kid 3 
U ask:
"Who the hell is me?!"

My sleep is none
The...Read More

Bright and early in the morning,
Certain seasons of the year,
The hunter feels temptation,
To chase the timid deer.

With his rifle and his knife,
He searches constantly,
Every hoping, ever dreaming,
Just one deer to see.

Though he may come home at night,
At a not-so-hurried pace,
He...Read More

The sun already came
     Bright and early
And then smoothly it left as was its arrival
The moon hasn't arrived yet
It's running late
The still dark night awaits 
Two love hearts lay in the dark waiting...Read More

Little Davy wanted a puppy for Christmas
His parents, though, were totally against it
Davy whimpered and whined til he was breathless
“Please,” he wrote to Santa, “bring a puppy, Mr. Clause”

The big day drew closer and Davy said a prayer,
“Please, dear Lord,...Read More

It is Monday, today is pay the bills and light shop.
All this after we have been for the morning run.
The dogs are always keen, they trot beside me
as at ten miles an hour we cover the ground

Always pleased to see...Read More

Armadilly Billy the Sling Shot Kidster was steadily on the move.
He was leaving the Southwest and his reputation behind, for sure!
Every gunslinger was out for him and of killing he’d become tired.
Even the weather was being surly, as a dust...Read More

Message in a bottle

I love the coast and a fresh morning breeze
The salt air inspires me for no reason at all
The sun rises, as I ponder this great universe
God’s great earth is a miracle bestowed before my very eyes

I stumbled...Read More

Up bright and early at the crack of dawn
Seems that's been my routine forever
Don't wanna waste a single damn moment
Don't wanna miss a single thing ever

Time seems forever when we're youngun's
Old age is a bunch of decades away
Then all of...Read More

It's bright and early the birds alarm has rung,
More than two tunes I can hear being sung,
Twitterings and tweetings brings the garden alive,
enjoying the scene with Tilly by my side

Jumped  into the car drove to the woods,
would have loved the beach,...Read More

She looks in the mirror full of anticipation.
 A bright shining future with a good education.

 A beautiful smile with deep defined dimples.
 One day at a time, life seems so simple.

 Up bright and early, so happy so bliss.
...Read More

I wake up bright and early, then look to my side
A smile takes over my face, and so does my pride
Watching you sleep in peace, and I forget to blink
“Thank you God”, is the first and only thing I could...Read More