I love traditions, but we learned long ago with our blended family
We needed to look at our traditions with more objectivity.
With so many relatives to be considered and only so much time in any holiday
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In the past year I've written poems about many items we drink and eat
I've posted them to Facebook, they've even shown up in my Tweets.
Whatever I've said about other foods, today all seems so lame
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When you think about the following quote...what Emily Dickinson said,
It's ironic most of her poetry was published after she was dead
‘A word is dead when it is said, some say.
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Because I could not stop for Death -
He kindly stopped for me -
The Carriage held but just Ourselves -
And Immortality. (Emily Dickinson1830-1886)
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I’m no mathematician...I don’t know Pythagoras’s theorem from that simple ratio Pi
But after spending a few days with the grandchildren I know numbers do not lie.
Yes numbers play an important role as we travel down life’s path
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Two stray cats went exploring out in the world one day
One found it much too boring the other bright and gay.
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The women’s Kansas State Basketball team is known as the Lady Wildcats
And it is to their resourceful ingenuity that we may all now take off our hats.
To beef up attendance for this Friday’s game..no, I am not at all mistaken
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Our city is golf cart friendly and now that we’re retired we thought, “Hey”
There’s a green way to get around and I can take it to work each day.”
So we drove to the golf cart showroom thinking, ‘How expensive can they be? ’
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In honor of National Peanut Butter and Jelly day I have my words arrayed
To pay homage and allegiance to the best sandwich ever made.
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