Silly Poems

We did a major spring cleaning a couple weekends ago.

I'm talking we filled the entire bed of the pickup with huge boxes full of recycling and garbage, plus we have several bags to go to Goodwill. We emptied the attic and organized everything into totes that we moved to the basement.

It felt so good to purge everything. When I moved in, we kind of just threw all of my stuff upstairs and, since upstairs is out of the way, things just kept accumulating and piling up in the most unorganized of ways. (That's normal, right?) I have pictures and I'm not showing them because I'm too embarrased. 

I'm so stinking excited because when spring finally rolls around (March 20th at exactly 6:45PM if you care to know) we won't have to spend it cleaning inside, we can get right to work on outdoor projects!

Back to the headline of this post. When I opened one of my totes, this book was laying on top...

This was a Christmas gift in 1998 (I love when people write inside books). I remember also having two of his other books, A Light in the Attic and, my favorite, Where the Sidewalk Ends, but I must have lost them along my way. 

Kelly remembered this book from his childhood too, so we skipped down memory lane for a bit. One of the things we didn't quite grasp as children? The ridiculous amount of sarcasm in a lot of his poems. There were also a few of them I didn't quite understand as a child, but now seem much funnier.  

Here are a couple of them;

 

Gardener

 

We gave you a chance

To water the Plants.

We didn't mean that way -

Now zip up your pants.

Scale

 

If I could only see the scale,

I'm sure that it would state

That I've lost ounces...maybe pounds

or even tons of weight.

"You'd better eat some pancakes -

You're skinny as a rail."

I'm sure that's what the scale would say...

If I could see the scale.  

The Voice

There is a voice inside of you 

That whispers all day long, 

"I feel that this is right for me,

I know that this is wrong."

No teacher, preacher, parent, friend

Or wise man can decide

What's righ for you - just listen to

The voice that speaks inside.

 

 

 

Do you remember these books?

PS. Another favorite childhood book that's being released as a live movie by Disney, July 2016. Woohoo :)