‘A Divine Mistake?’: A Poem by Norma Pain
. A Divine Mistake? Dear Father up in Heaven, Why create thou rats. Six times out of seven They even ...
. A Divine Mistake? Dear Father up in Heaven, Why create thou rats. Six times out of seven They even ...
. Puddleplat Place The pill-popping people of Puddleplat Place, __Were a very unhealthy lot. You could tell by the pained ...
. The Knitted Dress I began with the best of intentions, Though in hindsight I have to confess, That the ...
. Red and Green . Red Tomatoes Tomatoes fresh or in a jar Must top the list of red by ...
. Gordon’s Soup One day old Arthur Vincent Knowling, Quit the couch to take up bowling, Grasped the fact at ...
. Gnome A long-time fixture at our home Is Schnozz, our little garden gnome. This non-complaining happy chap Appears to ...
. Butterfly Habit Ungainly butterfly, Misdirected flight. Fascinating random, Unpredictable delight. To and fro… up and down And backwards if ...
. Why Can’t I Marry My Pit Bull? Why can’t I marry my pit bull? He’d make an incredible spouse, ...
. Just Words The more we are together dear, __I fear… can love suffice? Of late I find you’re cavalier ...
. Learnin’ Letters I wanna learn me letters Ma, I wanna learn ta read. If I can learn me letters ...
. Bite Your Tongue If you should feel the sudden urge __To put forth your opinions, Letting sundry thoughts diverge ...
. The Signs I saw the signs, They read, This Way. I followed them For half a day, Until my ...
. Media You told us lies, ignored our cries. __Your platforms you abused. You cancelled truth; you damaged youth, __And ...
. Cookies I bought a bag of cookies for a snack, But they were way too sweet… I took them ...
. How Troubling to Know Mrs. Pain How troubling to know Mrs. Pain. She has written some ludicrous stuff. Some ...
. Ghouls Rules Out in the middle of Howling Heath Lives a mean old monster with a million teeth, In ...
. Dr. Quack My name is Dr. Henry Quack and in my little room out back, Are lots of pills ...
. The Salt Spring Island Trolls I have a boat In Fulford Bay. She does not float To my dismay. ...
. Chitchat If only I could find a man, I’m lonely since Sebastian, That loser, left me for another. Still, ...
. Give and Take Mr. Taxman, you’re a peach, Fill your pockets we beseech. Having money is a curse, Please ...
. The Pigeon Once upon a workday morning, sleepy-eyed and loudly yawning, I was splattered without warning by a pigeon ...
. The Twins _Said one foot to the other, _“Please don’t nag, you’re not my mother, I am sick to ...
. The Obsession of Emily Rose (A Cautionary Tale) Emily-May Matilda Rose, from the age of three, Acquired the habit ...
. Slivered Moon Slivered moon on slippers slides Across the skies on silver tides, Draping cobwebs over trees And coaxing ...
. Time Is of the Essence The powers that be in their ivory tower, Make important decisions for sure, While ...
. Trudeau’s Canada Jab them all, Big and small. Small are buffer And must suffer. No opinions, Little minions. Cover ...
. Bluer Skies after Ogden Nash Spring ain’t sprung, the grass ain’t growed, The fields ain’t fit for man nor ...
. Fields of Grass In youth I ran through fields of grass, Convinced that I could fly, And endless were ...
. The Devil and the Hounds of Hell Over and over in the gloom of night, In degrees of Celsius ...
. Old? Hell No! in a thick British accent __It's bin three years an’ a day, __Since the Mrs. passed ...
. I Took a Notion (A Man’s View) I took a notion once in life, To find myself a willing ...
. “Make a decision,” is what me ma said, As she wearily plucked at each feather, ‘Er old gnarled fingers ...
. My eyes espied a little bird And in his mouth… a little worm, That screamed a scream but no ...
. To the Residents Down Below I am a bookish kind of rat And like each rat before me, I’ve ...
. I wish I could build me a magic machine, A magic machine that would last, Till the octopus sings ...
. Oh hail the master puppeteer, Controller of the strings. The altruistic engineer, Sagaciousness he brings. With breathtaking dexterity, He ...
By Christine Lin NEW YORK—Painter and children’s book illustrator Kadir Nelson has long created images of the African-American experience. But ...
Like a modern day Norman Rockwell, the monumental works of contemporary realist painter Stone Roberts capture in vivid form and ...
. The Society of Classical Poets Journal XIII has been published! It features poetry, translations, and essays selected from those ...
. The Society of Classical Poets Journal XI has been published! It features poetry, translations, and essays selected from those ...
Mr. Handley-Schachler, there are many things to criticize in Sigmund Freud, and maybe even a few in the work of…
Dating this vision in the recent past, when the apocalyptic events described were not observed (at least not in the…
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I do not think, Morrison, that any such disputes are pointless. For millennia we have been trying to figure out…
I don't think, Morrison, that such disputes are ever pointless. Attempts to understand the human psyche have been going on…
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