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    <p><strong>There are funny poems&nbsp; at &nbsp;www. ellenbailey.com</strong></p> <p><strong>I&nbsp;Love Humor and Wit</strong></p> <p><strong>Love Funny Quotations.&nbsp; </strong></p> <p><strong>Shakespeare&nbsp;'s &nbsp;limiricks</strong></p> <p><strong>Langston Hughes</strong></p> <p><strong> <table class="poemtext" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="center"> <h1>When I'm An Old Lady</h1> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"> <p class="poemauthor">by Joanne Bailey Baxter</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center">&nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" valign="top"> <table class="poemtext" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tbody> <tr> <td width="100%" align="left" valign="top">When I'm an old lady, I'll live with each kid,<br />And bring so much happiness just as they did.<br />I want to pay back all the joy they've provided.<br />Returning each deed! Oh, they'll be so excited!<br />(When I'm an old lady and live with my kids...)<br /><br />I'll write on the walls with reds, whites, and blues,<br />And bounce on the furniture.....wearing my shoes.<br />I'll drink from the carton and then leave it out.<br />I'll stuff all the toilets and oh, how they'll shout!<br />(When I'm an old lady and live with my kids...)<br /><br />When they're on the phone and just out of reach,<br />I'll get into things like sugar and bleach.<br />Oh, they'll snap their fingers and then shake their head,<br />And when that is done, I'll hide under the bed.<br />(When I'm an old lady and live with my kids...)<br /><br />When they cook dinner and call me to eat,<br />I'll not eat my green beans or salad or meat.<br />I'll gag on my okra, spill milk on the table,<br />And when they get angry...I'll run....if I'm able!<br />(When I'm an old lady and live with my kids...)<br /><br />I'll sit close to the TV., through the channels I'll click<br />I'll cross both eyes just to see if they stick.<br />I'll take off my socks and throw one away,<br />And play in the mud 'til the end of the day!<br />(When I'm an old lady and live with my kids...)<br /><br />And later in bed, I'll lay back and sigh,<br />I'll thank God in prayer and then close my eyes.<br />My kids will look down with a smile slowly creeping,<br />And say with a groan, "She's so sweet when she's sleeping!"</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" valign="top">&nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" valign="top"><a class="referpoem" href="#send_page()">Email This Poem to a Friend</a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </strong></p> <p> <table class="poemtext" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="center"> <h1>When I'm An Old Lady</h1> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"> <p class="poemauthor">by Joanne Bailey Baxter</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center">&nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" valign="top"> <table class="poemtext" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tbody> <tr> <td width="100%" align="left" valign="top">When I'm an old lady, I'll live with each kid,<br />And bring so much happiness just as they did.<br />I want to pay back all the joy they've provided.<br />Returning each deed! Oh, they'll be so excited!<br />(When I'm an old lady and live with my kids...)<br /><br />I'll write on the walls with reds, whites, and blues,<br />And bounce on the furniture.....wearing my shoes.<br />I'll drink from the carton and then leave it out.<br />I'll stuff all the toilets and oh, how they'll shout!<br />(When I'm an old lady and live with my kids...)<br /><br />When th...

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    Shakespeare's Limiricks Langston Hughes Wit

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  • Re: Who is your favorite Poet?

    I tried three times to publish this post, but it came out with all the html code..so I'm trying to delete it...ha. GRRRRRR!

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  • Re: Who is your favorite Poet?

    One more try! I love the poetry of James Whitcomb Riley, the Hoosier poet who wrote mostly for children. Riley's published work included over 1000 poems, the most famous of which were "Little Orphant Annie" and "The Raggedy Man".

    I also love the poetry of the contemporary Irish poet Richard McSweeney. My favorite of his works "I'm Inside With The Without" was based on a photograph I took of an old abandoned home, and was recently published in his book "Unto Lineage Royal".

    My favorite lines in his peom is as follows....about the old home beckoning a new family to move in and occupy it's walls once more:

    "Someone come and my door do please open wide; my shutters give to be portal again for the winged buzzies of the fields.
    Would that I could be again with feeling the laughter of children and the singing of parents sweet lullaby rocky by babies all the way to sleep dreamland.
    Sun be dancing on my roof, clouds be raining agin my walls; oh, that someone would call.
    About you we stand in calm or storm holding thy hand.
    Yes, in each other’s comforting shadows we be although oft lonely for sweet human company we be.
    Wouldn’t we agree?
    In agreement we would be".

    Pretty amazing stuff!

    Mark

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