It's Saturday morning and off we go to the mall
The traffic just to get there is painfully slow
Upon arrival, it seems that parking spots are tough to be found
Up and down the rows of vehicles we finally get a break, someone is homeward-bound
As we enter the mall pushing and shoving start to ensure
We find an opening and make our way through
The list of shops we have to visit is much to long to count
It now seems the headache I just developed has started to mount
My credit card I know will take a pounding today
It is going to take me months just to repay
After a long day, our shopping trip has finally came to an end
Next weekend we will be back here again, this is becoming a trend
Categories:
shopping mall, family,
Form: Rhyme
Sing along with this to the tune of "Jingle Bells"
Shopping in the mall
In a rush to buy the clothes
or the sales we go
charging all the clothes.
Bills on credit high
making payments low
what fun it is to shop and charge
Until the bill is due.
Charge the dress, and the shirt
tap the credit card,
oh what fun is it shop the mall
inside the grand old stores.
Tap the card, tap the card
charge that new outfit.
Oh what fun is it to shop the mall
inside the grand old stores.
Categories:
shopping mall, money,
Form: Lyric
Remember Christmas shopping?
I mean in stores full of shoppers
- there was music in the air and
some shops had free hot-chocolate
while others offered hot cinnamon
apple-cider and ginger-reindeer cookies
Parents would have to wait outside stores
because the whole expedition was surreptitious
- you shielded your gift bags from prying eyes.
Siblings would offer to help you carry your loot
- as if any respectable kid would fall for THAT.
School choirs competed for applause, caroling in food courts.
A line of excited children would spark my older brother,
Brice, to smirk and tease, “Are you sitting on Santa’s lap this year?”
There was a dazzling neon candy-cane roller-coaster
on the roof of Macy’s called “the pink pig” that we’d
squeeze into - even though it was made for little kids.
I was always in charge of checking the calendar so we’d remember
when my sister would be flying home for college break.
Have a careful Christmas - holly jolly as it can be.
Make memories that will last forever - like favorite songs.
Categories:
shopping mall, brother, christmas, happiness, parents,
Form: Free verse
How does he choose his victim?
The police are baffled.
Six cases.
Six different women.
One old, one extremely young, the others 33, 45, 68 and 84.
Most of these guys have a type. This one doesn’t.
They are a variety of ethnic groups, different hair color.
Different body types, one with tattoos.
The shopping mall bandit has struck again.
Takes all of their shopping bags, their cell phones, their jewelry and their cars.
This time he has accidentally taken a 93 year-old with Alzheimer’s who was taking a nap.
He dumped him off at a gas station.
So now they know three things about the guy.
He is a thief, he does not use local pawn shops and he has a heart.
Categories:
shopping mall, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Today I went to the shopping mall
A few items I needed to purchase
I decided to have a coffee and snack
Then went to Tim Horton's to order
Paid for it then walked to an area
Where I could enjoy my coffee and snack
There wasn't anywhere to sit down the
seated areas were all taken away
So stood near a railing to lean on
The security guard came to tell me
I could not eat or drink coffee here
So I went outside to have my snack and coffee
I understand the reason not sit down to eat
The virus has changed everything now
So now I have decided to eat breakfast at home
Then go shopping at the shopping mall
Categories:
shopping mall, change, fear, sick,
Form: Free verse
Big sale. Buy Two get one free
I race across the mall aisle and stare at an empty shelf
What had they been selling? I glance around for clues.
They sell phone covers, socks, and bras, so I wonder…was it
Valentines Day phone covers, Santa Socks, 4th of July bras?
“Hey,” I demand from an employee. “What was on this shelf?”
He looks, and thinks. “I don’t remember,” He says,
“But you would be surprised how many people come over to see.”
So much for truth in advertising.
Categories:
shopping mall, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Well done, she said.
Smiling her biggest smile.
I have never seen anyone else wear it like that!
There are other ways to wear a skirt?
On a head? Or a shoulder perhaps?
You should buy it! She sang out gleefully.
It looks great! Another stranger told me.
Turn around! The other one said.
I pirouetted, in front of the three-way.
A stranger had asked me to, after all.
It looks great!
It looks darling!
No one has ever worn it that way before.
I look at the skirt….
On my waist.
Wondering what that means.
They do not let me leave without it.
Telling me I have never looked better.
Nothing like shopping at a store
Where the salespeople are on commission.
I will have my mother bring it back in the morning.
A skirt I loathe, but I am such a people-pleaser.
They hip-hip-hooray me as they take my credit card.
Categories:
shopping mall, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Santa is at the shopping mall
The children are all lined up
To have a visit with Santa Clause
Taking turns to sit on his knee
Telling him of Christmas gifts
To be put underneath the tree
After their visit with Santa
A photo is taken together
To bring home with them
As a reminder spent together
The kids are pleased they saw Santa
Giving their Christmas list to him
So now they are all happy
They shout outwith glee
Anxious for Christmas to come
With the gifts that Santa brings
To all the boys and girls
All over the world
Categories:
shopping mall, boy, celebration, children, children,
Form: Free verse