Long Corncob Poems

I hanker and pine for wood burning stove weather

I haint no spring chicken,
("Buk buk buk buk ba-gawk!")
but in Summer re: 
long in tooth sexagenarian 
nostalgic for the following imagery 
evoked yesterday with very little effort
(aside...

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A snowman knocking on my window pane,
                       his breath puffing white in the...

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I gat no ing job
All I do is place a daring bet
Sometimes I hit the big stone with my toe
While if luck gat my back, it catapults me like a jet

Madness permits corncob 
Yet remain...

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Calling and hooting
to the wind tiptoeing
along the terrified face
of the wriggling curtain
looking through the window
at the trees and their dark ghosts
casted upon the blood of
the moon o'er the floor-
where loll a breathless frog
silent as a...

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Barely Getting By

Lately we barely seem to be getting by
And my lovely wife keeps asking me why
Pennies saved were earned here and there
But bills are sky high piled up everywhere.

For us to keep spending am...

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The Laskey brothers owned a farm, a lovely little spot.
A babbling brook made merry mist when summer nights were hot.
And that’s when Jacob filled his pipe and sat upon a boulder.
The smoke arose, a haloed...

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                That sickly little ginger's eye is open again!
Oh she's loving her new sister in crime!
Look at them on the...

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We spent the day at Grandpa’s house.
At bedtime, as we would often do,
By the fireplace we did rendezvous
While Grandpa stoked his corncob pipe.

When he leaned back his rocking chair
And asked with a wink of his...

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Ho Ho Ho Merry Christmas!

Elves of the hinterland engrossed with plenty work in hand
Of decorating the snowy world into a Winter fairy land 
For season of celebration, Merry Christmas is here
Carols,Cakes and Cookies goes on...

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Here I stand on the front lawn for all gawking passersby to see;
A convenient spectacle on which neighborhood dogs choose to pee!
I try to keep my cool (so to speak) as people make sport of...

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exhibit a:
total weight of adults roaming the earth-
316.4 million tons (US measurement)

exhibit b:
average adult body mass in the world-
136.6 pounds (US measurement)

exhibit c:
average north american adult body mass-
178 pounds (US measurement)

exhibit d:
*an additional 935 million...

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For all who have been wondering
I'm from the hills of Tennessee
I was raised a country boy
And as hillbilly as can be

My bathroom was an outhouse
And I lived on an old dirt road
We had no running...

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One day when the children woke up
It was snowing, what a surprise!
They clapped and laughed and got dressed quick
While their parents just rolled their eyes!

They quickly formed the snow outside
Big squares made them easy to...

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God Said Glory Be

Why do everything I always try to rhyme
And not only that, it is all the time;
When I first get up and eyes open wide
In my big brain, I saw a poem inside.

My...

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i am the chocolate snowman melting away by blues
i am the chocolate snowman melting away by blues
my corncob pipe is wilted and tattered and torn are my shoes

my heart is a wilted flower in the...

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There was a man that wished to be a snowman.
Winter came in with the impatient wind,
approaching in by its downy grace; the man
in the midst of it all, the snow read his mind.

Excitedly, seized by...

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Inspired by Sunshine Smile’s “Escape From Reality.”
And also Caren Krutsinger who plays with imagination.

LOST IN THE CORNFIELD

Why
do I
wanna
get lost
in the cornfield

At
first because
it is new
and exciting,
not knowing
what
to expect

Later
they are filled up
with fog,
and monsters

My husband
has no interest...

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Nebraska straw was irritated to be woven into a hat
I am as plain as a calf, lion, hoot owl, corncob and bat.
you are a beginning, her grandma told her; do not give up.
especially if you...

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In the distance I heard Christmas bells
 As I strolled through the park as snowflakes fell
 The trees were all covered in white
 And Christmas lights were shining bright

 On a park bench I stopped...

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