Long Fly the coop Poems

Old blabber mouth gets on my wick
His attitude makes me quite sick
He plays to the crowd 
Is brash and so loud 
My husband thinks he's an idiot!

Inspired by Stevie Wonder Song on the Radio today...

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I'll drink to that, three sheets in the wind, the Booze cruise                       ...

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Every so often, my mind wanders back to the summer of my youth, where a specific memory awaits. 

Having completed my first year at University, I’ve come home. My younger brother John, fifteen, seems all...

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SHE RAN AWAY WITH THE CIRCUS

                         The neighbor‘s daughter ran away
...

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Trevor Jed Engelson Unwittingly... 
launched Meghan Markle into royalty

American divorcee 
     catapulted from “AA” to “Zed”
at break neck speed, and with cachet wed
Prince Harry, and soon
     twill...

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Dominik, I want you to 
Understand why your mom
Feels so light and free. 
I believe I have flown
Through life.

I remember flying from
The sheltered wings
Of my family as I flew
To Saskatoon Saskatchewan 
Thinking I would be...

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A sly fox invaded the chicken coop
Fostering ill will in a fowl-tasting soup
With feathers festering in a cruel stew
Good hens, the fox makes a mockery of you

The fox chooses faves; others it condemns
Roost rulers say...

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I'm better than you! If you doubt it, ask me!
Though your station's a poor one, I'll help you to see,
That I'm gifted by God, oh, in infinite ways,
I'll still be the best me, though you've...

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how the turkey I asked 
a country of told you so
the moon beautiful for the fill gas oil
akimbo a foot on both asia and oops we gone the fall on both knee
the kid across said...

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This aint my first rodeo
I have known horse refuse before

Not thoughtful enough or thorough I thought
Well thats what boots are for

Emblazened on my personal crest
familial coat of arms

I will haul me from this arena
be my...

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Grandma’s Flown the Coup!

Has anyone here seen Grandma?
We’ve been searching high and low
It’s time she joined the seniors’ home
Burt she doesn’t want to go
She packed up all her make-up
Paid her Botox bill in full
Her kids...

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Author Dana Redricks
June 1, 2021

I never meant to hurt you, and I never meant to make you cry. The thought of losing you just breaks my heart in two. I love you from the moment...

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Alphabet soup

. for public domain

A freshly polished silver spoon easily whirls
warm pasta letters in a China bowl,
while Poetry struggles meagerly
to stir his spirit, enrich his soul.

He rather would want for food than words, 
a rhyme,...

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My muse
is tired of being abused
as I use my pen like a whip
making it do what I want it to

My muse
had no clue
or one eye inkling way of thinking
what it was getting itself into 

My...

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