Kaleidoscope

Let your life be seen,
To be endowed with trust

Look hard at your life
Peer deeply into one’s self

For tis’ only a kaleidoscope
filled with stardust

Viewed by God …
When he wants to amuse himself

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Wonder of weird things

I wonder about weird things…
My mind flits and fidgets
I wonder about genuises…
Pickles and idiots

I ponder of things
Like God, heaven, and widgets…
And do Crowded elevators
smell different to midgets?

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Say what?

An ol’ buddy proudly showed me
his new hearing aid

And advised me to invest in
some of the company’s stock

Interested, I asked
“what kind is it? ”

He replied
“it’s almost eight o’clock! ”

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Life...And Stardust

Like all travel,
passage through life
is only a voyage
to somewhere else
And unlike stardust
This passage will end
But the voyage of life…
like stardust itself
Lasts forever and ever
…after and ever after

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My Wife, My Treasure

My wife, my treasure
My enduring font of pleasure

Has many virtues that I admire
Many facets of which I’ll never tire

But the attribute which I hold most dear
Is how she grows more attractive after every beer

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Sunset

Wan shades
of carmine and carnelian
Dying in a sunset’s
languid demise
The flame of pink,
the smoke of lavender
Grudgingly giving rise…to
Final feeble glowing light
of velvety purple
Then to Ebon soot of night

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5 second Ode To Steve (My rubber chicken)

When I’m feelin’ low
And my spirits are sickened

When my energy’s sapped
And bad vibes have quickened

When I need a jump start
For happiness to kick in

I simply go to my happy place
With Steve, my rubber chicken

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Lots Of 'O's In A Lovely Language

Te amo
I love you

Te quiero
I want you

Te necesito
I need you

Yo te perdio a un otro
I lost you to another

Dios por que lo occurio
Why did it happen

Por si acaso estaba solamente un sueno
Perhaps It was only a dream

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Understanding women

You can’t
And you won’t
So don’t even try

You’ll never understand them
Not til the day
That you die

It’s a pointless endeavour
Useless to try to comprehend
You’ll understand them never

So don’t even try!

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It's good to be a weasel

Proud eagles fly high
Oe’r land and sea
Upon majestic, wide wings tipped
with finger-like pinions

Soaring Condors…Geese…no luckier
creatures seem to be
Yet it’s weasels that ne’er get sucked
into jet engines

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