Mixing Mayhem with Amen

Two brothers, ages six and eight were quite the mischief-makers,

If hi-jinks happened, they two were the movers and the shakers,

Exasperated totally, their poor and harried Mama,

Went to see their minister. Converse about her trauma,

He’d had some luck with other boys all bent on causing trouble,

She wanted help with her two ‘fore their town'd reduced to rubble,

The man agreed and said he’d like to see them one by one,

The younger first, that morning, with the elder later on...

The preacher took the six-year-old and sat him on a chair,

Then stood before the boy and fixed him with a sober stare,

Said to the lad, “Now tell me, son, do you know just where God is?”

The little boy just stared (mouth gaped, right to his epiglottis),

Again the preacher went on to repeat his simple question,

Again the boy just stared at him with fear in his expression,

A third time (louder now), the preacher thundered, “Where is God?”

The small boy screamed and ran as though pursued by demon squads,

Some time hence, his older brother found him in the cupboard,

Pale and shaking like a leaf, his legs both weak and ‘rubbered’,

The eight-year-old just looked at him and slowly shook his head,

Said, “What on earth is eating you? You look like you’re ‘most dead!”

The younger boy gave him a look of terror and of shame,

“God has disappeared, Bro! And they think that we’re to blame!”

Photo Credit: Karen of bakinginatornado.com

Cause Mondays do get knocked a lot,
With poetry, we all besought
To try to make the week begin
With gentle thoughts,
Perhaps a grin?
So Karen, Charlotte, Mimi, me
Have crafted poems for you to see.
And now you’ve read what we have wrought…
Did we help?
Or did we not?

That WATERMELON is a hit...

Let's reminisce a little bit!

Thinking of joining us for Poetry Monday?

We'd love to welcome you!
Topics for the next few weeks (with a huge thank-you to Mimi, who comes up with so many of them!)

Mischief (October 30) Today!

Watermelon (November 6)

Grandma's Kitchen (November 13)

The Bus (November 20)

A Pet's Life (November 27)