Mother Light Verse Poems

Baby squirrel was first born
On both sides of the family
Grandmas wanted to hold him constantly
A bit of a rivalry developed
Why didn’t you have twins? One...

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When Old Mother Hubbard
Examined her cupboard
And found not a scrap there to munch on,
Not one morsel that clung
To an ort or a crumb,
She felt foolish...

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To please her newly married hubby
she asked his mother for her recipe:
a cake with bourbon, rum, and gin
and tasted each before added in.
Needless to say,...

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Did you hear the latest?
Whistler’s mother was taken from the Louvre
and brought to England where,
she’s now sitting relieving in a loovre....

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Manset was a gorgeous Christmas mouse.
He spied her scurrying into her hole.
Even her pajamas were pretty!
How could he meet her?

He asked his mother.
Manset is too...

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Look at those nails! I say to the five-year-old.
Each fingernail is a different color.
Who did that? Iask.
Some lady.

Was it expensive?
No.
Was it your mother?
No, a lady...

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More lipstick! cheered Katie’s brother six-year-old Bard.
Get both cheeks! Get your mouth! How about your nose?
Three-year-old Katie is smearing lipstick on her lips and cheeks
Bard...

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"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers…"

Every time I hear a kid recite this twisted rhyme,
I'm 'minded how 'gainst Mother Nature it's a crime.
What...

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waiting is my mainstay
I am a wife and mother
I do not mind
I relish waiting

I can crochet a pink hat
tat a lacy doily
draw a dragon cartoon
write...

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ring of fire dancer is skimpily clad with tall fur lined boots
if flames catch his loin cloth everything will be revealed
I stare at the dancer’s...

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some called them desperadoes
their feats were written up in dime novels
bankers dreaded the day they would show up
I called them sons, they were sweet babies...

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Housewives who pray incessantly
get little done domestically.
Unless their husband’s are men
who don’t mind living in a pig pen.

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Psychologists now say
a child is denied a happy...

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The happily ever after...

He searched the kingdom for a fortnight 'til all saddle sore and weary,
With his eyes bloodshot and bleary,
The prince arrived at the...

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At the ball...

At this point in the tale, a happy ending should be pending,
But readers now are more demanding,
And so, I'll tweak a bit the...

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My father always showed calm restraint
in situations even he deemed dire.
Not so my mother, she’d shriek and faint.
I found this out one Sunday morning 
when,...

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