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!”
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| 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?
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?
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Topics for the next few weeks (with a huge thank-you to Mimi, who comes up with so many of them!)
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)