SoleMates
original watercolor boots/onions: 9" x 12"
Sophie and I
Were shopping for clues
What could we possibly
Paint that is new
We passed by the eggplants
With nary a glance
We’ve done them before
Those red beets next door
Were also a boor
But then Sophie spied
From the corner of her eye
Some onions, a bunch
And she had a hunch
We placed PopPop's boots
By onions and roots
She said we should paint them
And work really fast!
We knew it was time
To end this short rhyme!
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Jane Doe
original watercolor deer: 9" x 12"
Winter Blues
oh, how i long for June or July
and summer sunshine
filling the sky
this season of cold
has taken it’s hold
with harsh winds awailin’
and snow flakes asailin’
this winter’s so long
it’s long in the tooth
let’s give it a shove
let’s give it the boot!
i’m sportin’ my mitties
and ear muffs indoors
wool sweaters and wristies
but still i need more
each year winter’s gittin’
too hard to endure
i should be just sittin'
on some southern shore
instead i’ve got blankets
piled high on my lap
i’m ready, in fact
for a mid-winter’s nap……
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Past the Buck
original watercolor deer: 9" x 12"
this winter’s so long
it’s long in the tooth
let’s give it a shove
let’s give it the boot!
my heating bill’s HUGE
yet my house is cold
i’m grumpy like Scrooge
with a frozen billfold…
there’s snow on my roof
and ice in my veins
my fingers, i’ve proof
are going insane!
they’re sending their prints
to sunnier climes
i think i’ll insist
i join them in this
we’ll drive ’til we find
a welcoming spot
long on sunshine
with no winter bite!
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Watchin' for Spring
original watercolor burro/horse:9" x 12"
What ho!
the winds they were screamin’
my house it was leanin’
right into the flow
of last night's COLD blow
my windows were bulgin’
the furnace was pulsin'
that nor’easter’s hold
was keepin’ me cold
my goosebumps I declare
had goosebumps I swear
my nose it was froze
to my icicled toes
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Donkey Oatie
original watercolor donkey: 8" x 10"
Old Man Winter
it keeps on comin’
and don’t do nothin’
but keep me grumblin’
“it’s always somethin’ ”
snow piles a’mountin’
3 feet and countin’
i gotta shovel
my back’s in trouble
oh
old man winter
it just keeps hangin’ around......
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Orchestreet Suite
original watercolor cityscapes/ musical instruments: 9" x 12"
is it musically correct
to combine different sects
of instruments, no less
to create a new sound
or a work of renown
going outside the bounds
of traditional ground?
or must we conform
to a list of reform
that helps us endure
our circuitous norm...
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Sheepish
original watercolor sheep: 9" x 12"
at the end of The Day
I had but one thought
what happens to all
this work that I’ve wrought
‘twas always the best
of efforts i gave
my utmost, no less
and there was success
in music, of course
i’m wondering now
did it happen at all
if it did, then how??
i gratefully bow
to Mozart and Bach
i painted to them,
and Beethoven, a lot
but what happens next?
ditch the paper and paint?
get some needles and thread
sew something instead?
i’ve got time to fill
and miles to go
energy still
until, until....
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