Caroline is an old clerk, Now she is out of work, She has no special perk, She wants to find the jark, So she goes to the park, It is very dense dark, She walks on the tree's bark, She hears the sound of snark, Finally she finds the secret mark, She also sees a lovely lark, It tries to shirk, Suddenly ,it catches by a spark, And it has become a chark , Alas! I am not a nark.
For my family members
Holidays over
It's back to work
Duties, tasks, orders no more to shirk
As for me, I reckon
More retirement beckons
Yawns, naps, googling away
~ Wasting every precious day
Do you fear productivity
and lay your sloth upon the Lord?
Is indolence your proclivity?
Satan surely loves your accord.
But Satan is the Devil.
He will not fill your larder.
In your apathy he’ll revel.
Wake up and try a little harder!
Why I always make mistake in my work
I also irk, irritating mistake;
how can I make error free job to spark
To revise work, once before final take.
Don't have bad feeling; No, don't curse
Not reached that worse stage; need a thrust
Must have trust, Yes I can do it.
Don't think to quit; I’ve hope.
Mistakes bound to happen in life.
That shouldn't cause strife, as there's more scope
not one should mope; to improve must
ensure to trust with hope.
Don't judge mercilessly creative work.
Try to rework, check the flaws and mistake,
setback, to make sure finishing with smirk.
Admire own work; better than what I make.
To improve what's needed kindness in work,
ensure no jerk even we make mistake,
being kind, take support to improve work
Don't try to shirk; Aspire-a plan to take.
~x~x~
One too many bouts of drunkenness
A life of bright promise, made a mess
DUI tickets all over the place
His portrait drawn, a clown's face
His wife -- his Laura-- gave him a reprieve
Thus, determined, he went off to work
To shed the label of "big drunken jerk"
He stopped the drinking and started thinking
His sworn duty he did not shirk
Raised for a life of public service
He'd made those he'd served a little nervous
But in November of the historic year '2000'
He punched his ticket to the White House in...
An election that literally hung by a chad
Which made some folks glad, others quite mad
That a fellow they'd once roundly maligned
For drinking too much beer and wine
Thanks to God's grace and his wife Laura's
A model of decency and compassion had become
~ His predecessor in office, a discredited bum
Perhaps not the greatest President of our time
Arguably the most decent: George W. Bush, Jr.
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