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earl cattonThe Tale Of Two TownsIn the town of Frownupon,
Across the Sea of Sorrow,
Live the men and women
Who always fret tomorrow.
“It will rain, and then will flood!”
You’ll hear them in the streets,
Counting our their weariness
In lonely, sheepish bleats.
The sun will shine but they will say,
“Tomorrow it will storm,
We better take some aspirin,”
As they walk around forlorn.
The oddest thing about this place,
It never has had rain,
And never does the sun not shine
And yet they all complain.
In the town of Laughalot,
Across the Sea of Joy,
Live the men and women,
The...2008-08-0301 minearl cattonThe GlobeThe other day I spun a globe
And wondered of those down below
And how they drive their cars around
When they’re always upside down
2008-07-0300 minearl cattonSwingsRecess at the grammer school swinging on the swings
when I felt a kind of tingle and out my back grew wings!
So I let go of the chains and let my bottom rise
then the next thing I knew I was flying in the sky
The playground aids grew frantic at this unusual display
As someone yelled, “Get back here, you may not fly away.”
So I tried to do a loop-do-loop before all my friends
and noticed a photographer with telephoto lens.
I saw the headlines in my mind as I jackknifed in the air:
Child With Wings it w...2008-03-3001 minearl cattonHorrible, Deplorable Charlie The FleaCharlie was a flea of a very low degree
who hopped upon the rump of a rat.
He rode across the sea to the shores of Italy –
to see what he could see off the ship.
The gutters were a-flutter, every rat and her brother,
had come for the journey of their life.
It was 1347, and the fleas grew as leaven –
riding rodent carriages to town.
How small a little flea, who could have seen
all the trouble such as Charlie could infest.
Yet at times it’s the small, who conquer all
by sending their plagues to our shore.
Like t...2008-03-0501 minearl cattonNever SometimesHave you ever never sometimes
been flying in a dream
across a lake of jelly
when you hear a distant scream?
Could it be a monster –
or the echo of your voice?
And being never sometimes
you have to make a choice!
Do you fly toward the trouble,
be it theirs or be it yours,
encountering the terrible
never sometimes of a horror?
That’s the way of dreaming
as I have realized –
when waking in a pool of drool
while adjusting my eyes—
Of all the never sometimes
that I have lived to see
it’s The Never Sometimes monster
wh...2008-02-2401 minearl cattonThe Crocodileby Lewis Carroll
How doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail,
And pour the waters of the Nile
On every golden scale!
How cheerfully he seems to grin!
How neatly spread his claws,
And welcomes little fishes in
With gently smiling jaws!2008-02-1700 minearl cattonA ValentineThe opposite
of love is evol.
2008-02-1300 minearl cattonTwo Haikuby Yosa Buson
A tethered horse,
snow
in both stirrups.
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That snail -
one long horn, one short,
what's on his mind?
2008-02-0900 minearl cattonTracy's Tri-cycleTracy had a tri-cycle,
She fashioned from an icicle,
But when she went to ride it,
The sun did quickly hide it!
2008-02-0400 minearl cattonMr. Nobody~ Anonymous
I know a funny little man,
As quiet as a mouse,
Who does the mischief that is done
In everybody's house!
There's no one ever sees his face,
And yet we all agree
That every plate we break was cracked
By Mr. Nobody.
'Tis he who always tears our books,
Who leaves the door ajar,
He pulls the buttons from our shirts,
And scatters pins afar;
That squeaking door will always squeak,
For, don't you see,
We leave the oiling to be done
By Mr. Nobody.
The finger marks the open door
By none of us are made;
We...2008-02-0200 minearl cattonHidingby Dorothy Aldis
I'm hiding, I'm hiding,
And no one knows where;
For all they can see is my
Toes and my hair.
And I just heard my father
Say to my mother -
"But, darling, he must be
Somewhere or other;
Have you looked in the inkwell?"
And Mother said, "Where?"
"In the INKWELL?" said Father. But
I was not there.
Then "Wait!" cried my mother -
"I think that I see
Him under the carpet." But
It was not me.
"Inside the mirror's
A pretty good place,"
Said Father and looked, but saw
Only his face.
"We've hunted,"...2008-01-1901 minearl cattonThe Milky WayHere I am inside it
looking there upon it2008-01-1400 minearl cattonDo you carrot all for me?~anonymous
Do you carrot all for me?
My heart beets for you,
With your turnip nose,
And your radish face,
You are a peach.
If we cantaloupe,
Lettuce marry;
Weed make a swell pear.
2008-01-1200 minearl cattonThe Weather FeatherMy brother studies wind and weather in his science class
he said they have a weather feather that tells them if the wind is fast
I wonder whether the weather feather would tell me if my sneeze
is as powerful as thunder weather or just a springly breeze2008-01-0900 minearl cattonThe Elephantby Hilaire Belloc
When people call this beast to mind,
They marvel more and more
At such a little tail behind,
So large trunk before.
2008-01-0400 minearl cattonThe Penny Pincher2007-12-3101 minearl cattonMars Up Thars2007-12-2900 minearl cattonhappy thoughtby Robert Louis Stevenson2007-12-2900 min