Chillin'!

 

Vol. 1  Chap. 557

        Chillin’!

As Walls Closed In, I Got Away!

Now I’m Chillin’ In Our Driveway,

Just Sittin’, List’nin’ to Each Tune

In the Car I’ll be Drivin’ Soon!

Ev’ry Day I Hear Someone Say,

They Just Can’t Wait Until the Day

When This Pandemic’s History!

But That Date’s Far Off, You Ask Me!

 

It's Not That This Girl’s Not Ready!

Cue the Balloons and Confetti!

Whose Gunna Be Our Jonas Salk?

More Action Researchers!  Less Talk!

 

This Plague’s Taken an Awful Toll!

Just Count Up the Lives It Has Stole!

Add to All That Humanity

The Creeping Loss of Sanity!

 

Car Radio Plays, “Can’t Touch This!”

Can’t Touch, Can’t Hold Hands, Sure Can’t Kiss!

Next Up, “Don’t Stand So Close to Me!”

The Anthem of Twenty~Twenty!

https://youtu.be/KNIZofPB8ZM

 

Your Grampa Sure Loves Y’All!

 

Love~Grampa

 

G'Day Mate!

Vol. 1  Chapter 556 

                   G’Day Mate!

            I Feel Myself Stretchin’, Yawnin’!

            Birds Announce a New Day Dawnin’!

            In Our House We Have One Strict Rule:

            No Morning Mom Pics, Or Else You’ll

            Watch Your Phone Dive Into the Pool!

            Aud Loves Her Phone!   And She’s No Fool!

            This Next Part Starts a Mystery,

            That Perplexes and Baffles Me!

            Mom Needs Time to Put On Her Face!

            So She Can Join the Human Race!

            But If Mom is an Alien,

            Does That Make Me Australian?

            I Seek Koalas, Kangaroos,

            When We Head Off to Any Zoos!

            I’ve Been Known to Call My Friends, “Mate!”

            Shrimp on the Barbie?   That Sounds Great!

            Few Pics Exist of Pre~Dawn Mom!

            I Hope U.S. is Where I’m From!

            But If Australia, That’s Cool, Mate!

            Give Mom an Hour … She Cleans Up Great!

Your Grampa Sure Loves Y’All!

Love~Grampa

Seeds!

 

Vol. 1  Chap. 555

           Seeds!

 

That Sermon ‘bout the Mustard Seed

Makes Lots of Sense Out Here Indeed!

How Small and Insignificant

Seeds Can Sprout Up To Be Giant!

 

Our Modern Church Can Find a Match!

Just Join Us In the Pumpkin Patch!

Seeds the Size of My Fingernails

Grow Into Gourds That Break the Scales!

 

‘Fore We Launched Our Gourd Safari,

Pouring Out of Our Hot Car We

Heard Mom Exclaim, “Hey Look, Ice Cream!”

Part of Our Mother’s Master Scheme! 

 

Kids Holding Ice Cream Cannot Try

To Lift a Pumpkin Toward the Ski!

Mom Hates to Pay for Gourds We Drop!

And Hates the Screams When Back Discs Pop!

 

If Your Kids Love to Show They’re Strong,

We’re Telling You, You Can’t Go Wrong

Let Them Stroll Through This Fall Harvest

With Ice Cream Flavors They Love Best!

 

Your Grampa Sure Loves Y’All!

 

Love~Grampa

Nature's Child!

 

Vol. 1  Chap. 554

     Nature's Child!

 

 

Fair to Say, I Am Nature’s Child!

I Find My Comforts In the Wild!

Outdoors Near Mountains or the Sea,

That Stirs the Very Soul of Me!

 

Though My Home’s in San Diego

Anywhere I Find Snow, I’ll Go!

Stick Me Atop Some Mountain Side,

Then Watch Me Schuss!  This Gal Can Glide!

 

While Hiking on Some Back~Woods Trails,

The Noblest Creatures All Have Tails!

The Smell of Horses is to Me

My True Aroma Therapy!

 

I’m Drawn to the Gentle Motion

Of the Waves!  I Love the Ocean!

Even at Night It’s My Desire

To Bask Under Stars, By the Fire!

 

What’s That You Say?  “A Girl Can’t Stay

Outdoors Flittering Life Away?”

That’s Sadly True, So I’ll Relent!

“Welcome to My Living~Room Tent!”

 

 

Your Grampa Sure Loves Y’All!

 

Love~Grampa

In All the Years!

 Vol. 1  Chap. 553

     In All The Years!

In All the Years Since I’ve Been Born

I’ve Yet to See a Unicorn!

Not Any Flying Elephants

Have Flittered Past with Eloquence!

Fire Breathing Dragons Must Be Shy!

Never Once Do My Keen Eyes Spy

These Odd Reptilian Creatures

With Their Arsonistic Features!

 

But Certain Facts May Surprise Us!

That’s What My Teachers Advise Us!

J'ou Know What Critter Has Three Hearts?

The Octopus!  How’s That for Starts?

 

Who Plants More Oak Trees In the Wood

Than Human Beings Ever Could?

Acorns Buried By the Squirrel

Help to Keep the Forests Fertile!

 

In Sixth Grade There’s a Plethora

Of Facts ‘Bout Fauna and Flora!

I’m Absorbing Them Remotely!

Not Ideal … But It Works for Me!

 

 

Your Grampa Sure Loves Y’All!

 

Love~Grampa

I Dreamed!

Vol. 1  Chap. 552

        I Dreamed!

I Dreamed, But Not the Peaceful Kind!

Had Contradictions On My Mind!

Don’t Judge By Colors of the Skin!

Do Judge By Uniforms They’re In!

I Saw Six Folks … Six Cut~Out Dolls!

Six Uniforms for Each and All!

Her With Kind Eyes, Is She a Nurse?

What She Now Dons Makes Some Folks Curse!

She Selected a Street Cop’s Guise!

Gun, Mace, Taser Accessorize!

That Black Man, Tall, With Shoulders Wide

Has Worry Lines He Cannot Hide!

I Eye the Fireman’s Turn~Out Gear!

He Dons a Judge’s Robes!  I Fear

That There is No Occupation

Where the Face Matches the Station!

Three More Guesses and Not One Right!

That First Cop’s Partner’s Here Tonight!

But He Re~Hangs His Uniform!

Alone, ‘Kind Eyes’ Must Face This Storm!

Your Grampa Sure Loves Y’All!

Love~Grampa

Animal Groups!

Vol. 1  Chap.  551

      Animal Groups!

 Animal Groups Have Special Names!

 For Most, It is Their Claims to Fame!

 Here’s a Sample of How It Goes:

 “Obstinacy”? … That’s Buffaloes!

 We Know Whales Travel in a “Pod”!

 But Don’t Ya Think It’s Kinda Odd

 That Baboons, When They’re in a Press,

 Are Actually a “Congress”!

 Owl Groups We Call a “Parliament”!

 Poor Pandas, an “Embarrassment”!

 Giraffes Logic’ly, a “Tower”!

 A “Shrewdness” of Apes!  That’s Power!

 So ‘Course This Got Me to Thinkin’

 In a World Where Ev’ry Stinkin’

 Genus Has a Collective Name

 Should Red~Haired Girls Receive the Same

 Courtesy?  Like, May I Propose

 Henceforth, Our Group Be Called a “Rose”?

 But If You Don’t Find That Catching,

 We’d Accept a Simple, “Fetching”!

Your Grampa Sure Loves Y’All!

Love~Grampa

How Is It?

Vol. 1  Chap. 550

         How Is It?

           My Big Sister’s So Popular

           That I Grabbed My Binocular

           To Study Just How Is It She

           Draws People In, Effortlessly!

          Seems She Can Smile Just With Her Eyes

          And She Knows How to Empathize

          With Those Who Need a Friendly Ear!

          She Can Sense a Friend’s Hidden Fear!

          She Asks Questions That Have Meaning!

          Then Listens, Carefully Gleaning

          What’s Important!  What May Be Missed!

          What’s Necessary!  What’s Just Wished!

          I Concluded, From My Studies,

          Others Know They Are Her Buddies

          Cuz She Never, Ever Derides

          A Less Secure Kid and Besides

          I Showed Audrey My Conclusion!

          She Read, Then Spoke, Quite Confucian,

          “You Think I Smile Lots?  Good Gracious!

          “Just Wait ‘til I Lose These Braces!”

Your Grampa Sure Loves Y’All!

Love~Grampa

I Won't Name Names!

Vol. 1  Chap. 549

   I Won’t Name Names!

Some People, And I Won’t Name Names,

Won’t Say, “Grampa” … Sure Won’t Say, “James”,

Speak of Mom & Me Somewhat Odd!

Callin’ Us, "Two Peas in a Pod"!

If We Evah Get Back to School,

They’ll Put Us in a Pod!  That’s Cool!

Prob’ly Four or More Pods Per Class!

With All My Friend, I’m One Psyched Lass!

While Mom and Aud Pump Huge Barbells,

Some Folks Seem to Lose Their Marbles!

Refer to Aud and Mom Thusly …

“Apples Don’t Fall Far From the Tree!”

Mom Says It's More Than Mere Genes Math

As We Meet Folks Along Life's Path!

Like Rivers at Their Confluence,

We All Exert an Influence!

On Ev’ryone We Meet, I'm Tol'

We Leave Some True Part of Our Soul!

Unseen and Unscientific …

Hope What I Leave is Terrific!

Your Grampa Sure Loves Y’All!

Love~Grampa