Ed Webbs last blog post..Media & Identity in the Middle East – Noted This Week (weekly)

But in between the bric-a-brac
Hidden in recess, joint and crack
I found a store of mischief rife,
A veritable stock of life.

For just behind the biscuit tin
Bereft of scaley tail or fin
Two silverfish began to scurry,
Then scaled the pantry in a hurry.

Watched by a spider unaware
Who, on a bone just napping there,
Spied happily with the other eye
Her web entrap a butterfly.

And down beside a jug of figs
A pair of chocolate-brown earwigs
Lay dreaming of tomorrow’s meal,
A tasty piece of potted eel.

And more of tasteless base decorum
Waiting in that kitchen forum,
Holdings dense in rich variety,
Tenanted in just propriety.

Of all the city parks and zoos
Confining apes, cats, kangaroos,
More awe-inspiring imagery
Springs from my home menagerie.

Ken Allans last blog post..In Praise Of Plaudit

I can’t spell the type of cherries
That they use to make you
But Ani thinks that you are
As great as I did
When I was her age.

He likes to drink the fizz

From the top of pop

Fizz! Fizz! Fizz!

His eyes bulge

His lips pucker

Slurp! Slurp! Slurp

And a grin

His eyes twinkle

His lips curl at the edges

He’s captured the fleeting effervescence

Of bits of dancing bubbles

To quickly the fizz flattens and flees

Into the air

Like the breath of youth

Which, once exhaled,

Becomes the vapor of memory

In the mind of a father

Rick Tanskis last blog post..National Poetry Month 2009 4.5 The Fizz

Grill chesse is my daughter’s favorite food to order.

I’m not a kid, he says,
and I am suddenly aware of how tall he is
(and wonder, how did that happen?)
and I notice how he won’t even look at the menu placed in front of him
that has the word “kid” jumping out at him in bold letters;
Instead, he steals a glance at my menu, like a thief,
and points his index finger right straight at a large plate of ribs
with fries and more food than one can even imagine tumbling off the sides of the picture
and he boasts, I can eat it all, no problem,
as his brothers look up from their crayons and coloring
and admire his audacity
while I consider the size of his stomach
in direct comparison
to the size of my wallet.

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