It is more
than 'The Land
Down Under.'
It is song, expression, love, artistry,
raw, and unhindered truth.
Walt Disney and films were once
soaked with meaning
that the soul doesn't forget
when it counts.
John Candy was the Albatross
and Albort Brooks was a mouse.
Comedy doesn't have a size
when funny counts.
Neither do great scores or scenes
when they are remembered.
I love you, Peter
but you are still a boy
your games run
in redundant circles
with Captain Hook
and his pirate ship
he doesn’t have gold
in treasure chests
that I can hold
or spend
his crew
are dancing cartoons
your pet crocodile
doesn’t scare me
neither does
the ticking clock
that caught up to me
the little lines
underneath
my middle-aged eyes
make me glow
with contentment
the storm is coming tonight
and I am cozy
in writing
poetry
James Barrie
found inspiration
and created
Tinker Bell
he borrowed
her fairy dust
for his play
it still sings
playful
for me
when I visit
Neverland
I love you, Wendy
let's keep growing old
together
and watching the
shifting shapes of
cotton clouds
maybe we
will see his ship
cross the moon
let’s smile back
at Captain Hook
and his endless
journey
to the playground
and the imagination
of Walt Disney
he also left his heart
where a child
with an open mind
(creativity)
was meant to be
his name's been on every child's lips
in whirls of fantasy, whimsy, slips and trips
synonymous with awe and wonder
we all grew up with the machinations
of Disney's wild and vivid imagination
a man with the grandest of vision
beautifully executed with precision
AP: 3rd place 2025
Today’s blessing takes its inspiration from Walt Disney
whose wisdom can’t be overstated..
Just look at all the joy and laughter
In the wonderful world that he created:
May we be blessed to understand….
The answer to this aging quiz…
That growing old is not our choice
But how we choose to grow old is.
Dreamer extraordinaire Walt Disney.
A work in progress his dreams will always be.
With a mouse called Mickey, he began fussing,
To this day his Disneylands are still plussing.
Walt Disney was a cartoonist with dreams, visions, ideas.
interested in animation, he started Laugh-o-Gram studios.
he had a pet mouse there, inspiring Mickey Mouse
steamboat willie was the first cartoon ever produced with sound.
walt and his brother roy created a short of the three little pigs.
this short won disney studio an academy award in 1933.
it took them four years to produce snow white and the seven dwarfs.
many people thought the $1.5 million dollar production cost was ridiculous.
snow white and the seven dwarfs was the first animated feature film.
the first animated full length cartoon created in color.
snow white was the most successful movie of 1938.
in a year she had grossed six and a half million dollars, ingenious!
Walt Disney was a cartoonist with dreams, visions, ideas.
Interested in animation, he started Laugh-o-Gram studios.
He had a pet mouse there, inspiring Mickey Mouse later.
Steamboat Willie was the first cartoon ever produced with sound.
Walt and his brother Roy created a short of the three little pigs.
This short won Disney Studio an Academy Award in 1933.
It took them four years to produce Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Many people thought the $1.5 million dollar production cost was ridiculous.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was the first animated feature film.
And she was the first animated full length cartoon created in color.
Snow White was the most successful movie of 1938.
Within a year she had grossed six and a half million dollars, ingenious!
I Love the Once Upon a Times
and missed the Happy ever Afters
Disney
Mickey Mouse
Little Mermaid
Huey, Dewey, Louie
Disney
Disney
Donald Duck
Goofy Pluto
My favorite is Mulan
Disney
Disney
Think Frozen
Elza, Olaf
Snow White, Cinderella
Disney!
I remember the exclusive Walt Disney days,
We used to travel there with our parents.
Stayed at a beautiful timeshare Limetree, Sarasota.
Then we visited the Walt Disney kingdom.
Father Dr. Wolf would drive us there,
We bought tickets for Walt Disney world.
Our parents were just the nicest parents you could know,
There was a parade when you came to visit.
They had many activities, my recollection of those days is limited.
Many nice boutiques, I purchased two T shirts for Kirk and Erik,our sons.
We would walk along the white sandy beach and collect sea shells,
Then we would travel to St. Armands on the bus for twenty-five cents.
We dined at the exclusive harbor restaurant and the hotel restaurant,
Our mother and father used love to take us dinning.
Our timeshare was right on the beach,
You could walk for hours, what a beautiful sunrise and sunset each day.
Author:Gwen von Erlach Schutz
Walt made Mickey a mascot of fantasy.
They grew together building a legacy.
According to his lovely wife,
They mirrored each other's personality of life.
A short while back when Shayla was three, Written just for Barbara's Contest.
I took my granchild's child to the Zoo with me.
She sat in he stroller as we pushed her around,
And she knew almost every creature we found,
Lion goes "RRRR" and Tiger goes "Roar,"
Hippos go "plplplpl" which I'd not heard before.
She knew elephants, horses, gorillas and monkeys,
She knew snakes and Gnus and eurasian donkeys.
Since the day was warm and the child needed a nap,
We sat in the shade on a blanket with her head on my lap.
We ate our lunch as I watched our dreamer,
Who woke and ate hers then pointed up at a lemur.
"Julian" cried the child, "Thats right" cried her mother,
And I looked from one grandkid to another.
When we got home, the child ran to prove it.
In Madagascar, thats a Julian who likes to move-it moveit.
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