Temporary Employment by Ernest A. Jones I want to report about my new job. It’s a specialized position. In fact, I fear I’ve worked myself right out of the job. I had the sole responsibility for bathing two hundred and fifty elephants. Yes, you’re reading correctly, I had to bathe two hundred and fifty dirty […]
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Maybe I’m an overgrown kid, but I still love to touch stuffed animals–just not the stuffing. When I was a preschooler my puppy chewed up my little Raggedy Ann doll all over the yard, and I was the first to find a chunk. At seven, a foe and a friend had a fight over her […]
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Author’s Note: After reviewing a poem about Ireland which was submitted for consideration for Magnets and Ladders Magazine, I created a few lines to show the poet that we needed more information about why she wanted to return to the Emerald Isle. She agreed with my suggestions, and sent a nice poem which we published. […]
Bunnies by Marilyn Brandt Smith From my book: “Chasing the Green Sun” When I was a child, my Easter basket was always crowned with a fuzzy stuffed bunny, usually pink, sometimes with a music box inside, and always with ears twice the size to be anatomically correct. Riding home from the School for the Blind […]
Leaving Oz by Valerie Moreno After all of the twisters, Witches and pitches, Yellow brick roads That led to more glitches— Where scarecrows talk, Lions are teary And a tin-man’s wish For a heart makes him weary— Facing the dangers with courage and awe, Then finding the wizard’s a man with a flaw, Still, when […]
This is an acrostic poem, a bit of a riddle. If you read the first letter on each line of poetry, you will spell something interesting. Want to try it? Here goes! Winter Pleasures by Marilyn Brandt Smith Sounds like cornstarch ‘neath your feet, Numbs your fingers without gloves; On a whim kids hit the […]
Winter Travel Tips by Marilyn Brandt Smith First published in the Matilda Ziegler magazine, November 2011 Recent snows in the northeast raise questions. Is this just the tip of the iceberg? Will this be a fierce winter? Ski resorts can’t wait for it to start. In the south it’s one of those “This can’t be […]