My mama wore only dresses back in the dayMaybe in the fifties, that was just the way Wide-brimmed garden hats that had country charmPillbox hats and summer gloves weren’t much good on a farm She had a few dresses of pale colors made of cottonThe popular styles of the day she...
On a late spring morning in West Texasriding through pasture overgrown with brush cowpunchers pushed a calf into a clearingThe animal needed to be roped if it was a yearling The cowboy throws a loop around the yearling’s neck and hears it mournThe calf can’t escape the rope tied to the...
After a good rain, the ditch across the roadWould fill up completely and spill over with its load We begged our mom please what would it matterIf we just went across the road and put our feet in the water Mom looked at us and Said guess it wouldn’t hurtAnd after...
Come NovemberI always remember When I was smallI did have it all A big pile of leaves to jump in back thenBeing outside we never wanted to go in There was so much laughterIt filled up our rafters The smell of rolls baking in the ovenKnowing mom made 3 or 4...
I remember the day little brother Bobby disappearedWe had been outside playing but now we all feared It started like any other dayabout five of us kids had gone out to play hide and seek was our favorite gamewe had certain rules they were always the same you could hide anywhere...
There’s Anger out thereAnger everywhere Boiling over like water in a potPeople acting like they should not Does anyone notice or careSeems they only stop and stare Anger riding highMaking Innocent ones cry Is there no end in sightSo much dread and fright So much anger out thereYes, there’s someone who...
Elephants are the largest land animals there areNine tons of fun there the heaviest animal by far wide flat ears and a very long trunkthey like to play together they have a lot of spunk They can crack a peanut in nothing flatthe sound they make is similar to a purring...
Take me back to muddy Creekwhere I could lay out on the rocks and think my feet are in in the water and they dangle thereI had nowhere to be So I really didn’t care There is no one talking in my earOnly myself and nature out here I never get...
The toucan is a colorful girl with a vibrant billyou can keep looking you’ll never get your fill life in the rainforest is where she loves to hidetakes over abandoned homes that’s where she will reside she’ll stay most of her life in the treetopsjumping from branch to branch sometimes she’ll...
