are you smarter than a fifth grader?
I cannot even outthink a road grader.
I am not a professor or super market demonstrator.
Are you smarter than a fifth grader?
I doubt I can put cheese on a cracker, said McFrator.
I am dumber than you are, said his sister, Mater.
I do not even understand how to peel a tomater.
This tickled our friend, Samuel McFrator.
Are you smarter than a fifth grader?
They asked of a passing escalator.
The escalator got persnickety said Crater.
She stuck up her nose and walked off with Slater.
Slater is a friend who is way dumber than a fifth grader.
He once lost a chess contest with a road grader.
We are losers said McFrator, Crater, Slater and Mater.
The escalator yelled “You are all dumber than a fifth grader!”
One goes up one goes down,
Many feet trample it,
Hands on the rail,
Bag on your arm,
It will never tire,
But !!! It could break down,
It's modern engineering,
Many places have them,
It's an escalator.
During a power outage, some people got trapped on an escalator
Sounds silly to me but hopefully, they'll all be rescued later
But the result is a trauma
Best advice is a sauna
Come to think of it, it's a lot better than on an elevator
angels on an escalator
moving cloud silent
towards a sunburst crack
in a dark winters sky.
appearing, white feather wings
golden halos glinting
as in pictures on gallery walls.
old masters saw them
I am sure now
They tried to help us all
because there they are
lined up step over step
reaching for heaven.
Excavator V Escalator
Escalator, to the Top it puts
Excavator rives and ruts;
and it effectively undercuts!
One is a symbol of Mirth
Another; symbol of wrath
and destruction of Earth!
Escalator is a symbol or Fort
Paradigm of Human effort
the other; of bloody sport!
But most, Irony of this Writ
is that one is pretty neat
While another is full if ****!
So, in Life be a Detector
of which is the Escalator
and which is an Excavator!
17th Sept' 2013
S somehow, some people seem to strongly, wrongly believe
T that in the whole of universal time and space
A aliens do NOT exist and life flourishes in no other place
I it's only earth that's birthed a seed to breed
R real waste of space if that's the case
W we can't be the only ones, ever to have breathed
A all throughout eternity only earths borne race?
Y you must agree with me, it seems a notion most ill conceived!
T the marvels this cosmos holds, resplendant rings of ice, majestic moons of gold
O or Olympus Mons super volcano, or constantly quicker than light, the Neutrino
T too many stars, I always lose count as they twinkle and dance
H high up above me, wonder thrills with each fresh glance
E evolution? A steady state? Maybe God's Creation? Or quite by chance?
S some things hopefully could not be
T the whole of outterspace, for example, being empty
A another habitated planet? Or just lost humans lonely pipe dream
R really is a big universe, to have all alone
S surely something else, somewhere else, may also call it home?
©John-Ovan.P.Hull
You find yourself ever climbing,
walking up the moving stair.
The effort, vein, and ever tiring.
Your feet hurt, beyond compare.
But, in the distance is the reason
for the efforts, for your pain.
You try real hard, to move up closer,
instead you are, pushed back, again.
Lift yourself up to try again,
stepping ever, so carefully.
But, the same occurs, again, now,
knocking down, that which must be.
Though, you feel like giving up,
you know your heart won’t let you stop.
You must try harder to reach fruition.
You must try harder to reach the top!
Though it feels like an escalator
moving downwards, when you go up,
keep on going, you must try harder
and do your best to reach the top.
The most important is your trial,
not really, the goal that you have set.
For all you know, you may achieve it
and you would be without regret.
Remember, too, success is internal,
you do not have to gain reward.
The prize you get for going on now
is the love you receive, from the Lord.