her make up could have been much finer
the powder accented her purple eyeliner
she paraded past a farmer and a miner
is that make up or does she have a shiner?
Yes at thirteen, if you’re not a forty-niner
You don’t need your under eyes to have black eyeliner
But we do not say anything, because thirteen is a whiner
At supper we all keep our mouths shut at the clown-like diner
Elephant with pizzaz knew he was all that day after day
So glitzy that notorious drag queens had turned him away
He wanted to be in a show of some kind, so he was
It was shut down quickly by the jealous, the coppers, the fuzz
Elephant decided to rent his own meadow and have a sing
The other animals brought their lawn chairs to hear his ting-a-ling
He gave them a show like no other performer could ever have done
They came back and paid him money, because they had so much fun!
Each drop falls sweet from dark clouds
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a foot hangs out of Dorothy’s eager mouth
she never drops it
because she needs it
if anyone can say the wrong thing, it is Dorothy
We recently suffered two deaths.
“Deaths come in threes,” she told me.
Someone else had a barking dog.
“You are a bad dog mama,” she said.
Is she insensitive or incredibly stupid?
Possibly a little of both.
llama arrives in the tea room all polished and puffed up
putting on airs, as if she is almost too chic to dine or sup
persnickety, pampered, and proud of her new sophisticated look.
She looks like she has just written an uppity etiquette book.
We try to ignore her, maybe she can find another table in which to dine.
Scoot over, says my empathetic cousin. I roll my eyes and say “fine.”
Llama is batting her fake eyelashes and flashing her high heel shoes.
I pointedly do not speak to her until I remember she owes us dues
April 15 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on 1Kings 10-11
Key Verse – 1Kings 10:24 And all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO PUTS WISDOM IN OUR HEARTS
Praise be to God for putting wisdom in our hearts while we hear His:
Truth of compassion for our salvation
Triumphant calling for servanthood
Tremendous cleansing for our sanctification
Testimony that cheers our stewardship
Trustworthy correction for our steadfastness
1Kings 11:9 Praise be to the Lord Who warns us not
to turn our hearts from Him:
Stirred up by adversary
Stricken with angry angst
Sought through arrogance
Saturated by abomination
Satisfied along arguments
1Kings 11:10 Praise be to the Saviour for enabling us to stay in His will
and to keep His commandments by our:
Faith in His Word
Fervency for His work
Fulfillment toward His ways
Faithfulness in worthy worship
Fellowship around His workmanship. Amen!
April 15, 2024
Tijuana rain puts me into a siesta like mood
I sit by the window allowing her to lull me to sleep
relaxing the way only Mexicans know how to relax
releasing troubles, trials and tribulations of this week
my roommates tiptoe around me, shushing each other
I appreciate their concern, feeling their love and tolerance.
she is pretty when she sleeps, one says, which surprises me.
I slip gently into dreamland, unaware now of the others.
Darling diva cow puts on airs, said Ruth Could.
Weird for her usual smell is nicotine putrid.
No one can stand the stench of her pores or her coat.
Barnyards smelled better with cows, pigs and one goat.
Is that her? I asked pointing to a cow with legs.
She was kicking one up, practically showing us eggs.
Yes, and she thinks she’s all that, but her smell is horrid.
I could not get any closer, nicotine came out of her forehead.
Puts her lipstick on
She is then most beautiful
When she smiles that way
I took a hike
up passed the bougainvilleas
And up passed
This garden full of flowers I can’t name
And up near an area of flowers
That I can’t name
To find one flower by itself.
The vine or stem had crawled under a fence and scratched itself onto the blacktop road
Slowly
Giving petals time to unfurl into a flower
Before getting stepped on or hit by a car.
And it was enough time for an anxious bee
To get its ingredients.
Every time I watch my daughter put honey on her toast, I hope she’ll do it slowly and carefully by herself
Like that flower bloomed.
And I’m happy I know her name.
Sloan.
She can hear a candy wrapper being opened a mile away.
She races home, and tears through her dog door,
Stares at us accusingly, gets on our laps, to smell our breaths.
We always save her a piece.
She has fallen into heaven, my girlfriend laughs.
Not really, as we are no angels, but we love her,
And would probably put our lives in harms way to save her
from the murderers and thieves she warns us about hourly.
We live in the country, and Sophie dog despises a truck on the road.
When one goes by, which is rarely, she bares her teeth, and
wails as if the murderers and thieves are about to steal her candy.
She guards us daily, whether we like it or not.
We have no doubt she would throw herself in front of truck
to save us, and we feel exactly the same way about her.
The man who puts kids in cages
Laughs at the folks it enrages
Whilst taxpayers bleed
Republicans need
Bilingual pedophile Pages
If you don't stop all your crap
Your face I am gonna slap
My hand print will leave a mark
With full force whacking you hard
I can't take it anymore
You don't know what is in store
If your nonsense doesn't cease
Anger will surely increase
And boil so fast and wide
There is nowhere you can hide
You better wear a suit of armor
Knees and fists are gonna clobber
Every inch and I wont stop
Until I see you fall and plop
Into a pile that is useless
When did you become so clueless
And so blind you didn't see
My niceness turning to fury
With each stupid move you make
There's only so much I can take
Until I lose my common sense
Because you've become so dense
Destroying me little by little
Running away will be futile
There is nowhere to escape
My anger will always drape
Over you and not be gone
You have done me too much wrong
I hope this puts your mind at Ease
Because there is a Breeze
Those Leaves will shed their Trees
Creating furniture for the Bee's
Now, Milk turn's to Cheese
Honey precedes Bee's
And in spite of that Breeze
Leaves grow new Tree's
I hope that puts your mind at Ease
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