When you credit your time that is yours to keep,As you sit at eve to rest,And view each hour through the day be long,Can you say I have done my best?Did you smile on a little child today,Did you help another along the way?As lightening the load of a weary one?If you did, you say… Read More WHEN YOU CREDIT YOUR TIME by Katherine Cary Place
All dressed-up in a Zoot suit – With a watch chain made of Jute –You can give your horn a Toot – While findin’ ways to spend your Loot!Feelin’ 10 feet tall – ‘thout Wearnin’ Boots –And never give a Poot –We laughed and thought it quite a Hoot –Then found it truly did take… Read More Coot by Gaylia Kenslow Stogsdill
It’s Springtime in Dixie, All the is fair to see,If it were not for the folks at home, It’s good enough for me.The flowers are blooming all around, And birds sing all the day,They want to make me happy, Just before I go away.Oh, the river and the ocean, Their beauty can’t be told,My heart… Read More WHEN I GET HOME AGAIN by Katherine Cary Place
Come on home we want to see you,Want to visit for a while,Want to talk the old days over,Want to see your sunny smile,How we plane to have you with us,Talk about it day and night,Hope you will not disappoint us,Dear that wouldn’t be just right,Life deals out some tangled problems, Can’t make out the… Read More WAITING (To Elizabeth) by Katherine Cary Place
Words can’t express quite how I feel, I truly can’t believe you’re real.Bro’ Possum from your busy day, You’d find the time to send my way.Sketches and a story too, Sincerest thanks from me to you.Gaylia Kenslow StogsdillA thank you note to the artist Lowell DavisCopyright Roy Richard
Just a little woman, tender and true, Just a little mother that loves as mothers do,But a friend that’s full of cheer, A friend you trust and tell your secrets to.Just a little woman, frail and weak, Just a little mother mild and meek,But the glory of her smile, Makes you feel that life’s worthwhile,Makes… Read More Veva by Katherine Cary Place
One up with everything,Only a Flintoid would know that order.What’s a matter with you?THAT is NOT a chili dog, it’s a Coney Island,Chili dogs are wet and covered in beans and chili.Here let me tell you about them.Kogel’s Vienna Hot Dog, Steamed Bun,Diced onions and Yellow Mustard,And Coney Sauce!Beef heart and kidney simmered and dried.That’s… Read More One Up With Everything
New Year, New Semester, Blank Pages, Sharp Pencils, Calmly go forth, Meet the challenge, You got this, Good luck this semester. Roy Richard January 2023 Copyright Roy Richard
If I could have the kind of day I’d like on Christmas Day –It would be to greet each one of you in a good old fashioned way.To spend the day chatting. O’er events of long ago –And then enjoy the Christmas feast, near a fire that’s all aglow.To enjoy the gay, young faces, to… Read More CHRISTMAS DAY by Gaylia Kenslow – Stogsdill
I am sending out a Christmas box,To the ones that are true and dear.It’s crammed right to the very top,With love and Christmas cheer.I spoke to old St. Nick today,He said that he would see,That Christmas Eve you’d find it,Right beneath your Christmas tree.Now when you tear the wrapping off,And open wide the lid,Be very… Read More CHRISTMAS by Katherine Cary Place
Ramblings of an Old Coot 