Nursery Rhyme Redo: Little Bo Peep

 Little Bo Peep had too many sheep
And the sheriff came to impound them
He locked them away for a year and a day
And dared Bo Peep to find them

Late night produces some strange thoughts, and so this is the first installment of my rewritten nursery rhymes. 

A Green Giant

Have you ever seen

A pepper big as me

I think I must have fallen

From a giant pepper tree

I was such a handsome fellow

My picture she did take

She sat me on the scale

My weight she didn't fake

When she sliced me open
My secrets to reveal
What she saw I thought
Would surely make her squeal

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Quote of the Week

No matter how dark the moment, 

love and hope are always possible.

- George Chakiris

Love and hope is the light that breaks through the darkness, and gives us a reason to get up each morning.

Tommy's Treat

Photo credit: Pietroizzo

Black, white and tan, it wriggles and whimpers.  Where's mama?  Mounds of squirming legs, small wet noses sniffing out breakfast.  Mama rolls over and breakfast is served.  Day after day,the furry bundles grow, skittering around, chewing everything in sight.  

Little Tommy points to the one with a black patch over one eye.  He's mine!

This was posted for Friday Flash 55.

Little Tommy finally got his puppy.

Uncivil Conflict

Photo Credit:  Jshyun

Black and white

Blue and gray

A house divided

Falls into the fray

Red and white

Stripes of freedom

Pride of many

Rejected by some

Blue and gray

Many fall

A price to high

For one and all

Light turns to dark

Death and fear

Day upon day

Year after year

Blue and gray

Black and white

All remembered

Dark turns to light

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