Songs of Smiles and Love by Susan Lee

8/6/2019 Songs of Smiles and Love by Susan Lee

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Songs of Smiles and Love

By Susie Lee

poetic songs, rhyme-y rap and silly doggerelcreated by Susan J. Lee

copyright by Susan J. Lee, April 9th, 2011

Contents (by sections, okay, CALL them Chapters, then, Ya HAPPY, now? :)

Funnier-type Nursery Rhymes,Various Holiday songs & poems

This, That, The Other and Another

Flowers and Trees and Green Stuff, Oh, My!


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Originator of funnier nursery rhymes

I'm the kind of person that your nursery rhymes are From!

I figured it was time for new ones, so I'LL Give ya Some!

If I'm challenged, I will make another three or Four!and keep on making more up 'til I boogie out the Door!

And Then just keep on AT it while I stroll upon my Walk

(my friends, don't look-a me like that! it's All Just Talk! :)

I'm a little Mama Bear who's Happy as Can BE!When they Ask who is the Crazy Lady, tell 'em "Susie Lee!"

Funnier Nursery -type rhymes, (7 of 'em)

(1) The other old woman

There was an old woman who lived in egg-shoes;

she had so many colors, she couldn't dye, what to do?She gave out all the colors, and eggs and what-the-heck?

she gave each egg a good ol' whack and left the place a Mess!

Then came along the children and dogs and cats and friendsthey each played slippy-slide-ies in all the egg-soup then;

the cats and dogs all licked and slurped the mess of scrambled egg;there was't hardly left a drop for no one's hunger went to beg!


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(2)Ostara's Priestess

Ostara's Priestess went a-roaming for to find a Beau:

She asked directions from the rabbit, but he didn't know:The Rabbit showed Ostara's priestess where to find some eggs

She cooked them up and the aroma had beaus making legs!

and from them all she chose the best, they set off at a run

To find themselves a lover's nest and have a little FUN! :)

(3) A Chicken on the Thatch

A chicken on the thatch!

heave, cluck, Hatch :

she popped out such a dandy eggthe Goodwife took it down a peg ;

and put a pinhole on each end

to suck the egg all out and then;

Heave, Cluck, hatch!The egg had a new match!


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(4) What to do with doughnuts

Doughnuts for the RAVENS!

Donuts for the BIRDS!

They eat 'em, fly to HEAVEN!And drop them back as Turds

They fer-ti-lize the Green-er-y

and make the place a Scene-er-yFit for a King and QUEEN-er-y

DONUTS are for the BIRDS!

(5) Careless hare ( and don't you be one!)...

Hares eat groatsand snares catch joke-

-ers who don't Mind their Mam-mee

for dashing along before they see~

Where's to go

Before they knowit, they get All caught Up, Gee!,

and then have to won-der how to plea~

For when the hunter who set down the snarehas caught the rushed, unwary hare

that hunter's got

a hot stew-potand of all pleas, he doesn't care!

SO!, Hares eat groatsand snares catch joke-

_ers Who don't Mind their Mam-mee

and don't stop to look Be-fore They Leap!


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(6)Don't politic at me! :)

Political silly ol' crock!

Don't worry 'bout tickity-tock

you want to run?Go and have fun

with other mice

(pretend no vice)just don't tell me

'bout your party

politic states

make me iratea political silly ol' crock

I don't worry 'bout tickity-tock.

(7)an itsy bitsy...

An itsy bitsy jockey climbed up on a horse

down to the fairway he guided his steeds' course

up to the finish they moved on through the lineof all the other horses, and they finished just fine!

The itsy bitsy jockey the Winners' circle joined

Somebody there the winners' cup purloined!

Down, knocked the jockey, the robber on his backfor the itsy bitsy jockey, bravery's no lack!


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Various Holiday songs and poems

NEW YEAR song!

(Here I go with a quick-tempo song that just about "takes over this time of year. New Year's! ...and sing it very loud and happily, honey and it's catchin' , like laughter!)

Tap out a cheery beat....

(Bump-ity-Ump-Bump-BUMP, Bump-ity-Ump-bump-BUMP...Bump-ity Ump-bump-Bump-

(bump-bump-bum-)BUMP-de-BUMP-dee BUMP!

Now All-l the days HAVE GONE on By

Lessee ALL the Days Go BY(aye-yi!)-Y

We'll BE to-geth-er peace-ful Now

For-or ALL the Days Gone BY-YAND YOU can SIT right HERE by ME

AND I won't WON-DER WHY (oh, why)-YWE GET a-long right NICE-ly, NOW

FOR-or ALL-L the DAYS Gone BY-Y!

(Bump-ity-Ump-Bump-BUMP, Bump-ity-Ump-bump-BUMP..

.Bump-ity Ump-bump-Bump-(bump-bump-bum-)BUMP-de-BUMP-dee BUMP!

Hey, ALL the days HAVE GONE on BY

LESSEE all the DAYS Gone BY(Aye-yi)-Y!LET's TREAT each OTH-ther KIND-er NOW

Just for ALL the DAYS GONE BY-Y

AND YOU-U (Can BE my Friend For Life)-U

AND I-I(won't wond-der-WHY-Y) -IWE TREAT Each-OTH-ER KIND-er NOW

FOR-OR ALL-L the Days GONE BY-Y!

Now Here we go IN-TO a year full of Love, Joy, And SUR-PRI-IZE-zes!

We'll BE each-OTH-ers' FRIEND for LIFE

As ALL these days go BY!

Yeah YOU-U can BE my FREINDS for LIFE ,AND I'm a friend-ly GUY-Y!We'll TREAT each OTH-ER KIND-er NOW watching ...ALL these days go BY!


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Window-sill garden on St. Patrick's Day

Now WHAT's with that gar-den in her win-dowthe One with the green-y leaves there?

Is All of that pottery just For show

Hey those squash-sprouts Are look-ing fair!

She tried gardening outside just from habit

but last year lost All of her Gree-een-eriesto ALL of the wild-roaming RAB-bits

This year's plants' on win-dow-sills (please!)

Now WHAT's with this Gar-den in the WIN-dow

straw-BER-ries, squash, peppers, how fair!It's not a bad idea, I think I'll go

and TRY my hand at it, So There! :)

It's Saint Patrick's Day, so will you pardon

this lay-out of greeneries fairof growing things in my window- garden

and more stuff that's sprouting in there!

You see the squash sprouts are all sturdy

the pepper plant's got much more leavesThe strawberry plant's downright Purty!,

and over-all, I am quite pleased!


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A gather-song for Hallows e'en

Tis a Season For To Gather,

come to Gather, now, and play!Though all year-long We Be Witches,

'Guise we now An Other Way!

Come and Dance and Eat and Par-ty!,Laugh and giggle all day long!Come the night we'll sing most hearty!,

drumming well to merry song!

Heal we all the World with Laughter!Frown no more!, come, join our song!

Tuck the babes safe-sleeping, after

feeding them well, and join the throng!


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"ballad" between two robbers 'bout hitting the neighborhood Good-witches' house for Halloween...

(one robber;) "I seen that broad, she was rolling around

her husband in wheelchair before he went "down"

He come out on a gurney one day from therethen was her and that big dog who yelled for-to scare

now the dog is dog-gone, been given away

so why don't we-all break on in there, today?(partner-robber:) It's a Witch lives there!

Got that Wild-eyed Hair!

Don't get her mad, she'll turn to a BEAR!

She roars like a Lion, got a scary-ol' STARE,No, I don't wanna go in there!

(the one robber:) Don't be a chicken!, let's go and break

in to the place and see what's good to take!(partner-robber:) I'm tellin' you, it's a Witch lives there!

Don't gets her mad, she'll turn to a BEAR!

And she roars like a Lion, got a scary-ol' Stare!,No, I don't wanna go in there!

Listen up to ME, I ain't got a DOUBT

if we break into there, we AIN'T gonna come OUT!Ain't you heard, when she was in Newport News

took a SHOTGUN blast and got Nary a Bruise!

So I'm tellin' you, bro, and I'll take it on the chin,

ain't NO WAY in Hell, I'm Ever goin' in!It's a Witch lives there, got a scary-ol stare

and if you get her mad, she'll Turn to a Bear!

And she roars like a Lion, y'all better Beware!NO, I don't want to go in there!

(one robber) Awright, now, man! Stay here if you need

I'll go on by myself and do the deed.(partner-robber) Don't Lea' me alone, I'm comin' with you

You'll see for yourself, what I've said is true!

So they went to her door and the One Robber knocked

when she opened it the partner fainted, just cold-cocked!For she stared at them both with her huge wild eyes

and they each knew they'd forgot a disguise

she looked right thru 'em, they knew they'd seena real-live Witch on a Halloween

And she roared like a Lion, gave the robbers a Scare

You men ain't kids, GIT AWAY FROM HERE!!!And they hared off away, fast as they could go

Well, I don't think they ever stopped runnin' you know!

From the witch lived there, with her wild-eyed stareAnd she Roared like a Lion!, Gave them both a Scare!

No, I don't think they'll go back there!


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Falcor The pink-Nosed Ferret (Xmas)

Falcor the pink-Nosed Ferr-rethad bright shining eyes For Games!

And If you e-e-Ver Saw Him,

You'd know that he wasn't tame!

He dooks and bounCes frantic

-ally and he'll run And Teaseall the cats with His AN-tics

playing just the way He Please!(es)

Then One EAR-ly Christmas DayFalcor met his match

Ferrets who were young and gay:

Ma-cha-do, and Patch!

Then how they all LOVED PLAY-ing!

as they dooked it out in Glee!Falcor. Patch And MaCHAdo!

playing 'round and 'round THE TREE!!

Birthday!

Birthday Salutations to

well-liked, hearty, Goodly You!Another year you've well-survived

May many more you see, and thrive.

Interesting things just maycontinue to come your way

Birthday salutations for

Another year, and many more!


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Maple Flowers on Valentine's Day

In Jan-u-AIR-rie

it was too CHILL

to any blooms see

on win-dow-SILLS

But When the rains all rained here

we got...a Big SUR-prise, my dear~~

the ma-ple trees all sprouted FLOW-ers all 'round here

These maple FLO-wers

that came my WAY

Were brought with SHOWW-wers

Feb-Ru-Air-RAY!

And when they came on Val-en-tine's Day

I made a heart-shaped wreath, hey!

Of little Maple FLOW-ers for this song!

(this is seasonal!, No, Really!) After FootBall

Af-TER the game is o-ver

Af-TER the scores are done

af-TER the bet totes' done for

Just the one team that WON!

ma-NY's the heart has sighed, dear

(if one could WIN them all!)

MAN-y's the bets that have Lost, there

AF-ter-er football~~ after it ALL, oh, Af-TER FootBALL!!


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On May Day

Merry Meet, Merry Part and Merry Meet Again!for sometimes when we want to talk

We can speak with our Friends!

and sometimes we each "walk the walk"to speak of, now and then.

And if you find your speaking balked,

I'll understand, just grin!

May Day's an eminently good

time to greet others in your 'hood

and dancing 'round (with kisses stole)

a brightly beRibboned may-pole!

Now smile across this empty spaceas friends who're newly met

and let your smiling warm your face

so more friends you will get!

Not Scarborough fair...

Are you going to the fair on the Rhine?

With Cran-berry Cheese and CINN-amon-wine?

Have a nibble-y bite, and a sip that's just fine!

Of Cran-berry Cheeeese And Cinnamon wine!Pop open a can of whole cran-ber-ries fine!

Pluck thee some leaves from a good ber-ry vineput cinnamon in and a drop, just-so-fine

of vanilla extract in alcohol (wine!)

Let's make a pic-nic, Have a good time!With our cran-berry CHEESE And Cinn-amon wine!

What-EVER else we have with this is-just FINE!

We got CRAN-berry CHEESE AND Cinnnn ...amon wine!


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This, That, The Other and Another...

My little white cat

There once was a little white cat

that

was a close friend of mine.

She was too smart for me,

gee!,

intelligent all the time;

long-tailed, white fur and blue-eyed,

my!

She was such a lovely feline!

But would roll in the dirt to hide her

fur

from being so whitely-blind

and go out of her way to kill rats

that

lived along the tree-line.

a Song of my Mornings

Awake, awake to love and work,

where doves all coo and fly!

The grass is blessed with diamond dew,

the flowers open, shy.

All trees bough green as they're wont to do

as you o-pen your eye.

To live, and live, and live a-gain

is one thing I have seen

sometimes re-peat-ing now and then

times abundant or lean

yet always looking out for Love

and try not to be mean.


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Not oriental-made...

Well, doggone!, you bought some cookware

from a super-discount store where

a very large percentis made in the orient.

Surely, save all your receipts-es

if your stuff all falls to piecesfor you'll find to your dismaycan't depend e'en for a day

on an oriental-made.

(would I buy? I'd be afraid!)All the More reason Why

I so much prefer to buy

any and all sorts of sundriesmade in ANY Other countries!

Weather Woman

Gray-brown hair and smiling lips

a warm and healing touch in her finger-tips

loves her flowers and their colors bright

Trees shelter her house from the full sunlight

Whooo-Hooo, WEATHER Woman!,

See how far she scry-hi-hi-i's

Whooo-Hooo, Weather Woman, She's got monsoon in her eye-hi-high!

Storm comes up and she looks deep insideconsiders whether she should Push the cloudy tide

a tornado un-winds and goes back to the sky!

Did She do that?, well now I wonder why!




None of us mind just a little rain

but I seen that woman sling around a Hurricane

remember last year? Almost had a drought

but she drew the rains to come on back, without a doubt!





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Silly Ferrets...

As I was eating, had to sneeze

(a bit strong is this Feta Cheese)

when what to wondrin' ankles nips

but four ferrets with six q-tips

en route to see the new recruits

of ten new ferrets digging boots

and shoes and dirty socks and stuff

(aw these socks aren't all that tough

to steal. Now, gang they said let's go!,

we've got a ferretly special show

to put on for our human friendshere's toys and odds and big book-ends

and, see this two-ton pile, here?

Every item we'll drag clear

and hide it 'neath the humans' bed

they'll see it gone and scratch their heads

then we'll take each thing big and small

into the closet, 'cross the hall,

Then move it all Again (hee-hee!)!

(They all giggle in ferret-glee)

Now help us use these q-tips for

propping up the closet door

a few more centimeters high

oh, that's not working? Wonder why...

(because their Human has got wise

to furry mischief-making guys!).


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Lemming-room for humans

There once was told to me

a tale of Wesley's family;

he raised up was, in Biloxi

of 1930's Miss'sippi.

Well, times were hard for everyone

Money scarce 'n not much fun

'specially in homes so small

tweren't more than boxes, y'all.

Shotgun houses, there's still plenty

Room inside? Ain't Not ANY!

Because of this close-lived-in cubemost folks don't get along well, rube.

Both parents, he, Uncle and Aunt

all squoze together find they can't

move without stepping on each other

which sorely irked young Wes' Mother

We git from heah, that be just fine

I ain't got Room to Change My Mind!

(the New Jerseyan Goes Back)

The last time I went to 'Jersey

was only there in name

few things were where they oughtta-be

and nothing was the same.Go back to where the places-were!,

but they won't still all-be-there foryou'd like to see where you'd been from

(So step on through the door)

yet though you might return to them

you know can't go home, againbut maybe someone there will sing on out an old refrain...

When they might gesture and call out "YA MUTHA!" nice and plain!


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A Dream of Home, Remembered

Today's home-places can't be seen

for they've all been destroyed by meanand cheaply, badly done constructions

who are only Beauty's destructions.

so I retreat back into "me",... returned "home" in my memory

and climb, again, an old oak tree

gaze out from up among its limbson miles of meadows 'til vision swims

look down from that high perch, so fair,

on little wild rabbits, there

and off along the meadows' edgewhere crabapples have made a hedge

a breathtaking glimpse of deer

its white tail's up! It bounds from here!I see what startled the deer, then,

a badger!, seeking out a den

the huge old badger waddles byits wondrous image in my minds' eye

With all the meadows' sounds and sights

forever in my dreams at night.

The Limpopo River in Africa

Don't you know

the Limpopo

It flows like-so

don't drain from snow

De Limpopo

it smoothly flow

...dat's how it go!

Bonobos know

but dey don't go

in de Limpopo

Don't swim, you know

the fish they flow

with de Limpopo

(you catch one, so!)

and now you know

'bout de Limpopo!


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Here's to the doves

Here's to my friends who were fine birds, doves

no, their lives didn't end, they're living in love

I couldn't take care of them well, and gave them away

they've moved on to a better home with aviary

Their names are Pearl Beloved and Pearl Beauty

for any one they'd be a comfort (and they're cute, see?)

They're now with a nice fellow, an avian vet

where they can have the best of care any bird can get

but sometimes I will miss stroking the feathers of these two

and the way they laugh-along with you whoo-hoo-hooo!

Now, Now...!When a body wants a body

with whom for to lie

Then a body seeks a body(a girl for a guy)

classifieds and fancy-datings

and they might each spy

on each other's profile-ratingsand give their dates a try!

If a bod-y meet a body... with whom they love to lie..

Then a Bo-dy treats a body loving with their eyes..

auras, heats and flavors mingle, happily they sigh!how reluctant they are each to...part or say good-bye!

United in love, humans And non-humans

No drumming-march dissonant snare

let us, for one another, care

as do our higher Selves, abovemay we for one another love

each human AND non-human, all

United so, we shall not fall.


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Social Network User's refrain

No Mo' SPAM!,Thankee Ma'am

No mo forward-letters, too

No mo' GOTTA See Dis! (whooo)No more fake mail that's not you

No pretendin' that we do

want to see it, when we don'tor to open it (we won't)

No more SPAM,

THANK'ee Ma'am!

Copy-cat status is out!We'll each do our own about

thumbs-up or complaints are cooljust don't try to impose rule

gimme li-ber-ty (or death?)

wait, now, lemme catch my breath!I don't know why all-the-time

I've gotta talk in these rhymes

No Mo' SPAM!,THANK'ee ma'am! :)

(Merry Widow Waltzing )

My Hon-ey loves me

and when I see

him~ I~ do~kiss him sweetly

then, discretely

love~ him~, too~!The sweetness lasts the whole day long

and all night, that's true

it makes me want to sing this song

oh, I love you!

A mer-ry widowI am, kid-do

dance-ing throughmany emp-ty

space-es, plent-y

room~ for~ two~!Hey, why Don't you waltz With me

(hear the mu-sic, too?)

I'm dancing in the si-lence beee-

-cause I~ love~ you!~


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I'm here Always

I'm here, always here, waiting, waiting

once in a while elated, elated

when you call, as several days before.

And then the elation is deflated, deflated

back to only waiting, waiting

and with that the appetite drops once more.

It's a strange state of being, seeing

how one has changed, yes strange

all for the sake of amore

that at times feels unrequited, slighted

and other times elevated, elatedwith small shows of concern from you, once more.

For my part I always think of you, love you

and I can't help but feel this way seeing, being

that I will Love You For Evermore.

Flight Dreams

My dreams take me

on joyful Flightflying on happy

in bright sunlight

Colors allare rainbow bright

I never fall

but gently alightShall I light

on your window sill?

Come, begin YOUR flight!It's a Gorgeous thrill!


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( She Said What?)

For you over there chortling with glee

here's some more from little me

(you-know-who, it's Susie Lee!)

((give us, this day, arse-crackin' breaks

from the doggerel she makes!

So say you as you laugh and groan))

now here's more 'bout which to moan

Once upon a midnight weary

I'd been naughty with my Deary

we enjoy muchly, much and Very

getting together, making Merry!

Happy days and nights

Hey-hey-hey little Susie's acting Funny

Happy, fine and silly from a visit by her HONEY!

too cold to go Outside and so we Both stayed IN

had SO much Fun together's why I've got a silly GRIN!

Oh, boy THEY are each a-feeling Gladly!

he's got his BabyDoll and has she EVer got a Daddy!

She's trying to be everything he's wanted in a girl

and when he kisses her it Just makes her Toes Curl!

Hey-hey-hey, they're each a-making merry!

He likes the way she likes it and she thinks that he is Very

much the the bestest-fellow that she has Ever known

and wishes that SOON he would make her his OWN!

Now which Way're they each a-goin' off to?

She's won-der-ing why's he silent and won't Talk to

her, he hardly even writes to her, no more

she doesn't understand why has he closed his door?

But then, say! He's out and feeling better

Told her all about it in a fine e-letter

Now she eagerly awaits him by her door

for very soon they will be Merry-Making, more!


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Really Sweet Dreams

Heaven, I'm in Heaven...my heart's beating so that I can hardly speak

and he makes me come along so, I get weak

when we're arm in arm and panting cheek-to-cheek.

Oh, I'm so in love it isn't even funny

and there's no one else I want except my Honey

even if we're just together in my dreams

I could still enjoy his company, it seems.

So I'll close my eyes and try to fall asleep

then once again his company I'll keep...(Zzzzz)((snorf!, snarf!, gnorrff))(Zzzzzzz)

Heaven!, I'm in Heaven!...my heart's beating so that I can hardly speak

and he makes me come along so, I get weak

when we're arm in arm and panting cheek-to-cheek.

Web site posting glitch

I tried to put this in a message, but it wouldn't go

So now I took this out to stick it on a site and soWhatcha wanna know about you'd rather I not say?

I can Keep the blather Going 'til you Wish I went Away!

Oh, man!, this is the pits again, 'cause when I hit 'return'

the line I wanted following got Posted (do slow burn!)Now, neither site is 'better', just as neither ain't no worse

So I guess that's all enough for now, you happy with this verse?

Earthquake-prayer song

Tis time for earth-plates' shifting moves

may we be guided by our lovesand those of us who survive, then

will want to help the rest to mend

Now ,all throughout, this song I singmay each good spirit rise on wings

of heartfelt Love and heart-glow Light

helping each other as we might.


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(Time to eat :)

Steak and mush-rooms!, Steak and Mush-rooms!

Ten ounces worth of steak, I'm stuffed , ain't no room

This I tell ya, bro-ther!, ya can't eat one without the OTH-er!Try, try, try to get your pro-tien

from just plain old beans!

I ~Know~ Why~ you stick to di-etsBut! (sometimes you know) Your stomach ri-ots!

Lowers the Boom! Steak And Mushrooms

your gut demands of you to get!, and that Soon!

WRAP your tongue a-round it!A fat button mushroom AH, you've FOUND it!

OH, MY, This is such a good eat,

Yum, what a real Treat!Now ~ Sigh ~ When you push the plate out...

(Best...be ready for gout!)

((steak and mushrooms!, steak and mushrooms!))

Onwards, Sort of

Still as a whirl in a silent pool's swirl I try to "sense"-ify life for this girl

Life cannot make sense (for which there's no defense)

Sometimes we think we're smart; then we Know we've been Dense!

Onwards, and Upwards and SIDEways and BACKwards!

That's how I've always called "Forwards and Waywards"!

Straight-wriggle-weirdwards is how you go strange-wards

being there now while the worlds all go hay-wards

Running-in-place at the swiftest snail-pace

get there, anyway, it's not really a race

The Now that was Then can become any-when

repeat after me (oh say it with a Grin! )

"ONwards and UPwards and SIDEways and BACKwards!"

We'll get there, if not-really, friend!


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Emotional or not?

So here's what somebody sez-ta-me

(pounding on their own chest)Ses-a-me!

Emotions are all of our Enemy!

Why who SEZ your emoting's enemious?

You can be an emotional genuis

tone it Down if it's much too extreme-ious

Just don't over-do it, I say, Hon'...

if emotions weren't good For one

You'd not have any sort Of Fun.

My Beloved's Smile

Sometimes I get to feeling sadI miss my love, wish he were here

and then he'd write and I'd feel glad

he says such nice things, What a dear!Sometimes when things seem to be down

I think of you, then things CAN'T be

worth troubling over with a frownfor I Love him, and he'll love me

So surely all will come out right

So long as I, meanwhile

bask only in my memory's lightof my Beloved's Smile!

(going for a walk, are we?)Are we Walk-ing, tonight?

is tonight quite all right?

might it be time for us to go stroll?

Shall we chortle with glee

if i pop out my knee

(or you can just write back "that's a Lol!" :)

Shall I put on my walk-shorts and fancy-butt shoes

Or will this night bring PRO-cras-tin-a-tor-y news?

Will my heart get a pang

that you won't come, again?

Tell me, Dear ~~~

...Are we walk-ing, to-Night?


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WHERE can my HONEY be?

Oh where oh WHERE can my HONEY be?

He's staying so far away from me

He doesn't say why, so I've gotta be good

so I can see my Honey when he's IN ~~ the mood.

I don't know why he's stayed away so long

So that's why I'm saying so In this song

I Miss him LOTS and i hope he knows that!

(can't sing it out-loud, my singing's flat :)

I've tried asking why, but there's no answer so

am back to square one, Just Don't Know!

Am trying again, with this made-up song

(I wait for his call, all day long)

Oh where oh WHERE can my HONEY be?

He's staying so far away from me

He doesn't say why, so I've gotta be good

so I can see my Honey when he's IN ~~ the mood.

Me and my cat

I like to walk, but so does my

cat, Lena Green Crybabyshe wants always to tag along

(drives me crazy!) meow-ing songs

of Ma-Maow, please don't leave me!

No use telling her to Go homefor at my heels she will roam

in rain, Or sun, Or fog......this cat acts like a dog!


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For a friend as a back-to-strength thing for her bronchitis & upset stomach.

Ginger tea with honey,

sips and sips aplenty,

quiet oceans wash the bayevery wave renew your day

Sweet potatoes nibble,

with bits of butter dribbledtastes so good with ginger tea

(don't forget the honey, please!)

listen to the birdsong

resting all the day longNow fresh fruit and a cracker

makes a goodly snackerlittle nibbles all day long

while listening to the nature-song

back to wellness being

soon you will be seeing.I hope that your illness ends

and you will still be my friend!

Rhyme of Daisy Darling Ferret

Daisy Darling Ferret is a lovely fuzzy lady

her heart's twenty-four carat, 'twas a bouncy ferret baby.

She has a mis-healed left front hand with which she cannot climb,So we extol her virtues and her talents in this rhyme.

O Daisy Darling Ferret is so generous with kisses

there's hardly a square human inch of face-surface she misses!And if she cannot reach that, then your whole arm she will "wash"

gee, that's an awful lot of loving that she gives to you, by gosh!

She runs and rolls and half-bounces, and sometimes even "mimes"

But dearly Daisy Darling Ferret simply can not climb.

Now Daisy Darlin' Ferret was a ferret Lady, see?

her heart's pure golden-carat, in a spirit that's now free.a heart attack had taken Daisy from us and we're blue.

Her blithe and cheerful spirit spoke to us, though, and it's true!

For only moments after she had ceased to breathe, that daywe heard a tiny ferret-bell-like voice say "I'm okay".


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Flowers and Trees and GREEN Stuff, Oh, My!

Welcome!

There's a brick house with trees, here,This is where I live, see, dear?

And I like to let greens grow

for their shade and scents, you know;

Rest your eyes someon my flowers and be Welcome

to my Home;Let's chat over coffee

or, perhaps you'll have green tea?Aren't the trees all so Lovely!,

There is peace, here, have some!

Springs' Tree's Song

Soon the trees will reawaken,

soon the saps will again rise,

Soon the darkness that's Illusion,

shall again expose its lies.Trees leap aura-celebration,

its energy from crowns flies!,

High and Higher it Shouts, leapinghigher still than all the skies

down towards earth watch Higher Spirits

See the tree-Lights flashing here

each dispelling dark's illicitlife-threats just by Living here.

Celebrate Life with the trees' own

raise your hands up, Sing, out Loud!,

join their joyfulness with your own!,

LIVE your Life, bright, strong and proud!


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Blue Spiderwort Flowers

(la-la-La-La-LAHH!, LAH La-La-la-laahhh)

On a cloudy day I long for something to-oo see~~

That's a pretty blue, a favorite col-or for me!See there's a pretty spiderwort, in blues~~they grow themselves on grounds around me, So pro-fuse!

Give my eyes a lovely color to rest on, see!~~

Mornings when they op-en I gaze on them, pleased!See, here is just one of love-ly flowers in blues~~~

happily they're growing All around me, profuse!

(la-la-La-La-LAHH!, LAH La-La-la-laahhh)

Poe' trees?

When they don't gits no water, seeWe'd say dem plants done poe'-ly

and when dey don't neither, who are trees

we'd say dem t'ings is poe'-treesDo dey gits water, dey's allright

do-gittin' dew-drops in the light

And put your rinds under the sandde grounds enriched up dat way, and

be nice to each tree as can be;

When dey do bettah, so do We!

evening primroses

Her daughter had offered to cut the grass

but Susie said Wait!, now Not So Fast!

let's tell why Susie doesn't careto have the 'grass' cut anywhere;

Evening primroses in morning bloom

with blue spiderwort on the natural loom

in Nature's Tapestry on these groundsin color-explosions without sounds;

evening primroses, yellowy-bright

on cloudy days, ground's dappled sun-light!


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Azaleas All Over

Late February and through MarchThese flowers stand out, stiff as starched!

When they show up, they make you know it

with color splashes, really Show it!Look at those magenta hues!

Proclaiming flower color-news!

Tis the season and the hourfor this certain sort of flower

beautifully blooming plenty

wide as are my palms. See?

These flowers will never fail ya'sfor showiness; they're called azaleas!

Big bushes of them grow around the oldest oak trees where, I've found

Their firework-like colors, bright rival the sun's in morning light

These flowers are acidic : they feast as on a picnic

and more of it they'll beg; Give them your COFFEE Dregs!

White Azaleas

The first to open, last to go

so brightly white they seem to glow

bright as clouds with sun-shining on themare these blooms;there's so Many of 'em!

Good Mornin' Dearies!, I so-hail yas

with these lovely white azaleas.

Orchid Azaleas

There's azaleas like upside-down orchids

in two tones of pale pinks, oh, see!

There's especially pale ones like these, didyou never see better?, I agree!

In the front yard are bright-er colored ones

whose brilliance is hard to denythey seem to soak color from the sun

and out-shine the sun-setting sky!


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Rose tea?

How finely this is today

I've picked a lovely nosegay

want to sip this with me?Look, it's a cup of rose tea!

What'cha mean,Not this morn

there's still too much of them thornsWell, stop and sniff these poses

of redly fragrant roses.

( sure you don't want this rose tea?)

(no, that kind's too prickly for me)

Roses' fragrance

Give thanks for the fragrance

of roses, for, perchance

they may only bloom for a day

but a day or a week

we still always seek

their scents, as ever we may!

When their beauty has faded

they're crinkled and jaded

might no longer look like a flower;

the last thing to go

is the fragrance, you know,

for me that's their bestest-loved power!


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Wistaria

growing up through the trees, follow the twine-

ing of this mostly harmless interesting vine;Here lavender blossoms will grape-ily drop

(symmetrically reversed pyramidal dollops!)

What joyful flower-celebration to myappreciating eye!

All scented in sweet mysteria

lovely lavender wistaria

Windowsill Garden Revisited

In my windowsill garden (if you will pardon)

The squash-plants a-growing, pepper's two feet high!, now then

amidst all the greenway's a fine little nosegay

of roses from outside that I'd plucked yesterday

Just 'cause it Looks nice! (nature's beauty is my 'vice' :)

And when the petals all wilt away

I'll bed them around them growing young plant stems

for a pleasant mulch, what the hey!


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Morning Glories

These flowers are fine

Morning Glory vine

whose blooms are something sensational

They'll bloom in a blue

that's a perfect hue

or purple that's sheer-meditational

The white ones all look

like moons in a nook

that's greenly-growing invitational

but sadly they won't

have much fragrance, and DON'T

try to taste one, it's poison-izational!

Got Fruit?( by a real~ live~ girl )

Pardon me, but

I want only fruit cut

from my own ~ back ~ yard ~

Blackberries and figs

Strawberries, their twigs

from my own ~ back ~ yard ~

I'd like traveling thrutropic islands to

get fruit, but ~ that's ~ hard~ !

So I'll pick my own

that's all been home-grown

in my own ~ back ~ yard~!


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More trees, please

I sez to meself, one day

we need more trees anyway!

Let us notso many cut.

Next thing I know

there's a showof local hands

for more tree-lived lands

and a new ordinance

calls-for tree-cutting Against!

Ah, shade and breeze

from more trees, Please!

Watching trees

I've been watching the trees

wave their songs in the breeeeeze,

I've been watching the flowers

bloom regenerative powers,

watching seedlings sprout

and i am so pleased about

being witness, you see

to the births of more trees!


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Songs of Smiles and Love by Susan Lee

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