We all love to be praised that’s a natural thing

One might say he does not have the best memoryAnd he looks far older than his age of sixty three.He is not the man he was two decades agoThe hard life now tell on the poor fellow JoeFor working in hard jobs past his use by dateThe father of time for us never does wait.In…

And though I never did pen what you would call good stuffMy writing efforts as I age becoming more rough.For more than three decades addicted to rhymeTo many that would seem a huge waste of timeSince they only ask you how much you get paidAnd for penning your rhymes how much money you’ve made.When you…

And since geese are birds that one can see on a lakeA goose from a person one cannot mistake.His terms of reference of course a put downOne of the less sensitive blokes of the TownTo refer to someone as a goose is to call that person silly by another nameIn such an instance the words…

But in Ireland since another Spring gone byAnd a flight ticket back home I could not afford to buy.I vowed to myself that I’d go home last SpringIn May when skylark o’er the moorland singBut money scarce so here I had to stayAnd I could not go home to greet the May.This morning early a…

And he still feels quite angry with his fatherAnd why this should be not hard to understand.It happened when Billy was just four years oldThe day his father took him to the zooHe wandered towards a cage his dad not lookingAnd an angry tiger bit his hand in two.But Billy will put no blame on…

And lining it with feathers on insideBut in her work she seem to show no pride.No work of art built with painstaking careThe sparrow’s nest an untidy affairOn upper branch wedged in fork of tea treeAn untidy ball of hay is all I see.The sparrow take me back to boyhood dayTo distant Country many miles…