Graffiti Grin

cheery graffitti PhilipCoons

Photo: Philip Coons

 

If one draws some graffiti

Might as well make it smile

And add hair so it’s noggin

Will not freeze in the wild

(Though perhaps wipes or tissues

Won’t be bad to stockpile …).

 

 

For Kammie’s Oddball Challenge

 

It’s a Zoo!

its a zoo

Photo: Pinterest

 

“It’s a zoo over there!”

She exclaimed. Out of breath.

Cheeks still red from the stairs

And the cold evening air.

“It’s a zoo in the store.

It’s a zoo in the park.

It’s a zoo … at the zoo,”

Her smile grew.

She cracked up.

Couldn’t stop.

Her delight

Only matched

By the first time she ‘got’

“Slipped my mind” meant forgot.

 

 

 

For The Daily Post

Partners

Guatemala Duo InbarAsif

Guatemala Duo; Photo: Inbar Asif

 

When shut-eye weighs your lids

Yip patrol

Comes on call

While the third wheel can perch

On the sill

‘bove the bench.

 

 

For The Daily Post

Happy Girl

Happy Girl from pintrest
Photo: Pinterest

She giggles at the slightest silly

She grins at mirrors

Smiles through windows

Makes a dozen strangers’ day.

She beams at dogs, at books

A toy, a leaf, a pigeon

The world itself at play.

She chuckles at her own reflection

Adores someone’s freckles, wrinkles, shoes.

She rejoices in a pigtail, a polka-dot ribbon

Celebrates a doll, a braid, a tube of sparkling glue.

She chortles with abandon at a joke

“Again, again!”

She finds joy in the smallest moments

Her laughter paints bright happy into

Even the most mundane.

 

 

 

 

For The Daily Post