Amish teach

First baby can come anytime, Other babies after that one, Amish girls are not dumb, Or are they, Sex is a loaded gun, Playing with a loaded gun, Knocked up stupid ass term, In Amish community when male leaves marriage bed not like unAmish, Women can’t divorce, Until they die if he still lives they

Cat mom Not preschool teacher!

Cat mom puts disobedient often in time out three days in row, No screaming, No discomfort, Forth day kitten doesn’t try once to leave the house, Lesson taught and learned, Cat mom uses old crock pot one more time before pot becomes part of garden this year, Two meats placed in small crock pot, Double

Penny the energizer bunny,

Works from 7pm-3 am, Use to before last summer work a sixty hour week, Disabilied, Worked five years at Mercy One on cane in Waterloo,Iowa,forty miles from home, Secretary ER, Never had a break, Hurts to stand, Hurts to walk, No heat at home for two years, No Furnace, Northern Iowa, Two years, Worked there

Never had a

Never had a sister who thought I was cooler them a friend, Never had a sister who thought spending time with me mattered, Never had a sister who told others ‘she’s my sister or called across a store ‘Sis!’ Made me proud she included time with me was special!’ Wanted to share with what I

Unknown

Thoughts you hear and at an age to come you keep your thoughts or you foolishly share them, Sometimes thoughts shared feel good even when not welcome, Its the sharing the poet me feels, Thoughts, Words, Strung together are for our spirits, Our thoughts are not meant to make others hurt, Our being , Our

Best sleeping drug

Cat in my arms, If your seeking an elaborate poem, My pretty ones, This is but a to the point, Elegant and distinct, I hold a kitty, Can fall asleep ready, Tomorrow after the food bank, A lady who found an orange kitten, Has decided the kitten isn’t a keeper, I think all life is,

Wealth

For me is determined by being happy, I just was reclining with two kittens and a main coon, I was beyond pleased, Tomorrow my happiness increases, Money isn’t the means to my happiness, A baby was found Little orange boy, My heart always has room, So same cold out, Nother stretch of cold heading for

Stand up

Walk tall, Don’t slouch, Be your best you, Star Spangle Banner, We’re all in our places with bright Sunny faces, I recall of of that, But if someone said to me Val whose face do you think of if I said to you June/ 2022/Walmart- I’d say that”s easy Penny Polk Martin, Blonde oozing with

When I was fifty-six

Standing on the threshold of forty-seven, My entire world was like Jenga, You know the game like giant pixie sticks pull out the wrong one and you are doomed, Mom and I were watching TV, I on the floor at moms feet with Patches, Patches was an orange cat, Patches arrived at my cat hostel

Purrfect Amusement!

Temp’s falling, Saint Paul recovering from ten inches of newly fallen white stuff, My sister is forced to stay with her son Eric another day, Eric’s having a snow day, They shall have, A gay ole time, I just was in raising the curtain on Mr Bird Martin, My first family have never ever viewed