Poetry Corner

Billy W Shankin’s long big nose

Stretch out beyond his smelly toes

It reached out further to grape-filled vines

And followed down the highway lines

To an ocean wide and deep and finally touched

The Himalayan Mountains’ peak

That’s quite a beak

Billy W Shankin

The Granby boys from Marysville town
Did skip skip the path on down
To visit a girl named Jane Kwon Lee
And together had cookies and tea

There’s a girl in a picture

At the top of the stairs

She’s standing in the sand

A sunny day at the beach

Hands on hip

Smile on her face

I have to ask

Whose child are you?

Where have you gone?

The sunny day is now far away

Your smile is just a memory

You’re a picture fading on the wall

What would you do if you met a bear

who did not want to wear his underwear

and he said as he stared at your chocolate eclair

“Hey kid, how about you share your chocolate eclair?

I’m just a poor hungry bear who doesn’t like to wear his underwear.”

Just say, “I don’t care if I share this chocolate eclair with you bear,

but please, put on some underwear.”

Tripping down Candy Cane Lane?

Such is the cause of so much pain.

My teeth ache of this it’s plain

Too many sweets is insane.