Toucan Poems

    There once was a man from Japan,
    Who lived in an old caravan.
    When he took in a stray,
    And another next day.
    He...Read More

Toucan
Two can...Read More

"A Silent Song"

Mirror Mirror on the Wall
Blessed or cursed
Morning shave
Coffee please
Write a verse
Remembers last night’s dream
Grabs a napkin, spills his spleen
Shoves it in his pocket
Walks to work
Sits at his desk
Carries on as usual
Chats on with the new study, 
he’s on...Read More

I wake up from my dreams 
To a beautiful day 
The sun is up its like the bloom 
Of the sunflower that grows so high 
And in my dream it comes alive, 
With the flurry of birds flying through the...Read More

senators seeing stapled starkers
Loopholes. Lanky long. Llama Klamath llama please do not lean on those bent gables. For gables are gargling and gargling sounds very eerily similar to a gaggle of geese. Mission endeavour is a plane in a prism....Read More

When I woke, Mom, I saw a parade
right before me! I wish it had stayed.
There were drummers and clowns,
lots of colors and sounds,
but in minutes, it started to fade!

Oh my! I just saw a big bear.
He was out in the...Read More

Eugene awoke and looked upon
His Mirror in the morning Dawn
He saw himself and stopped to yawn
Then saw instead his friend Antoine.

Well Antoine said ‘come in, come on
I’ll whisk you with this Magic Wand
Then we can journey to the Pond
And sail...Read More

Costa Rica Tour

Sit right back and I’ll tell you all
About our recent trip
Somewhere in Costa Rica
We left our cruise line ship
The bus ride – uneventful
Out through the country side
The vistas were fantastic
 Then came the bumpy ride
The bus jerked to...Read More

A Little Girl’s Peacock

The vision she must have had
A brightly colored peacock
Many artists saw the magnificent creature
They all spoke of it
Some called it a toucan
Others saw the peacock for what it was
She knew what she wanted
She wanted a beautiful bird
Peacock...Read More

We went to the market today.  
Twas an extraordinary stay – 
Children begged in their same old way.  
Grandma, please, buy this, that! 
Money was tight; dreams flew astray.  
Oh, how they wanted that fat hat! 

Grandma,...Read More

(I first thing mentioned here had to be from me dreaming "awake," 
but the other two things I still swear to this day I saw them and my
sisters verify they remember me telling everyone about seeing
those things!)

A child, I woke...Read More

When this happened it caught the world off guard
An epic scene, a memory that you could not discard
Who would have guessed these two titans of obesity and tooth decay
Would break so many kid's hearts in such an upsetting way
The loving...Read More

A
tropic
of beauty-
easy on the
eye...Read More

Tiny Timmy


Today Tiny Timmy tries to talk. Terry Thomson tells Timmy that talking is too 
tough for a two-year-old. Tony Thomson tells Terry not to tell Timmy that. Tammy 
Tilson tells Tony, Terry and Tiny Timmy that Tinseltown has two...Read More