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Happy Grandparents Day!

Illustration courtesy: antiqueclipart.com

Illustration courtesy: antiqueclipart.com

Here’s a poem I had written 16 years ago and hope to publish as an illustrated children’s book. Enjoy!

While Grandmother Sleeps© 1997

While Grandmother sleeps
the children do creep.
They slip and they slide
They run and they hide.
It’s time for some fun
playtime has begun,
while Grandmother sleeps.

While Grandmama dreams
the little imps scheme.
They plan and they plot
use crayons to jot
hieroglyphic scrawl
upon her tiled wall,
while Grandmama dreams.

While Nana counts sheep
her little lambs leap.
They bump and they thump
they romp and they jump.
Laughing and wiggling
giddy and giggling,
while Nana counts sheep.

While old Granny snores
the youngsters explore.
Up in the attic
they’re acrobatic.
The chandelier swings
as they do handsprings,
while old Granny snores.

While sweet Grandma naps
the little tykes clap.
The tabby cat wails
for they’ve yanked his tail.
They rock and they roll
Oops! Splash! the fishbowl!
while sweet Grandma naps.

Before Grammy wakes
for tea and cheesecake,
the tots retire
tuckered and tired.
With halo in place
and angelic face
before Grammy wakes.

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For The Children

When love is gone
gone up in smoke
do not forget
your vows bespoke.

For children need
both Mom and Dad
’cause you are all
they’ve ever had.

Little angels
two, four and six
can’t understand
what you won’t fix.

Don’t throw away
through selfishness
your children’s right
to happiness.

Bite the bullet
and be a man
you, too, woman
you know you can.

Do not expect
a child to choose
for if you do
you’ll surely lose.

They love their Mom
they love their Dad
accept this fact
and they’ll be glad.

Think long and hard
what you do next
your children’s love
you must not vex.

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Computer Haiku

Screen Update by Peter Griffin courtesy www.publicdomainpictures.net

Screen Update by Peter Griffin courtesy http://www.publicdomainpictures.net

The following is a fun posting of haiku from http://www.rense.com. Author(s) unknown.  Enjoy!

In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft messages with Haiku poetry messages. Haiku poetry has strict construction rules: Each poem has only 17 syllables – 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in the second, 5 in the third. Haiku communicates a timeless, often achieving a wistful, yearning, and powerful insight through extreme brevity. Here are some actual error messages from Japan.

Aren’t these better than “your computer has performed an illegal operation?”

• The web site you seek
cannot be located, but
countless more exist.

• Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.

• Program aborting,
Close all that you have worked on.
You ask far too much.

• Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.

• Yesterday it worked.
Today it is not working.
Windows is like that.

• Your file was so big.
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.

• Stay the patient course.
Of little worth is your ire.
The network is down.

• A crash reduces
your expensive computer
to a simple stone.

• Three things are certain
Death, taxes and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.

• You step in the stream,
but the water has moved on.
This page is not here.

• Out of memory
we wish to hold the whole sky,
but we never will.

• Having been erased,
the document you’re seeking
must now be retyped.

• Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.

• I ate your Web page.
Forgive me; it was tasty
and tart on my tongue.