Rose Garden

“Rose Garden by Maisie Aletha Smikle

In the garden roses bloom
Blossom sprout and loom
With prickly stalks they bud
Red white and pink rosebuds

Petals open petals fall
To grace the garden floor
Take a midnight walk
And inhale petals on the stalk

As dawn draws near
Dewdrops form round and clear
Trickling down the petals like a tear
Cascading down the rosebud stalks

Landing at it's root
Watering little sprouts
So tiny buds may rise
From the garden floor

Springing up to bloom
Petals of pink white and red
To cover the garden bed
And their sweet aroma spread

Roses of good cheer
Roses for poses
Roses I bring
To make you sing

To bring you happiness
To bring you love
To bring you joy
And to bring you peace”

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10468504

Butterflies

 

“Butterflies   https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10466627
by Maisie Aletha Smikle

Colorfully colored butterflies
Black yellow orange and green
With their beautiful specks
Align the garden decks

Butterfly butterfly…
Lovely flies that ain't got butter
Their beauty makes one stutter
And their heart go pitter patter

And will soon melt like butter
They won’t eat from a platter
And one can only mutter
Butterfly butterfly ....

Radiant as the sunshine
Beautiful as the colors of the rainbow
Harmless as a deer
Adorn for all to see

First it was a caterpillar
Crawling on its tiny legs
It's entire body stretches out on a leaf
In the twinkling of an eye

The caterpillar transforms
And are given wings to fly
And fly it must….
It was not created to crawl

Miraculous indeed
Is the life of a butterfly
Displayed for all to see
Hope in the life of a radiant butterfly”

― Maisie Aletha Smikle

The Word Yesterday is the Word Today

 

Cheese by
Maisie Aletha Smikle and
Abigail LaTonya Waugh     https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10465351

Cheese Cheese Cheese
I must get some cheese
A rat I must appease
And put Micky mouse at ease

I need cheese for the steak
To shred and bake
To make bread and cake
While I'm awake

Warm cheese is so gooey
Heat it longer it melts to oil
Floating when it’s boiled
Water and oil they just won’t jive

When they’re together
They are still apart
Oil refuses to be absorbed or victimized
Frozen cheese is frozen oil hard as ice

Grill cheese on toasts
Stuff cheese in a roast
Cubed cheese on fried rice
Tasty and filled with spice

While I play ball
All I could think of was cheese ball
O how I would love to munch
On a very big bunch

Pizza and cheese went to the circus fair
It was indeed a festive affair
In the cool breeze
Pizza got married to cheese

Clown brought the tux and gown
On his way into town
Pizza and cheese profess their love for each other
And swore they'll forever be together

Cheese promised pizza never to leave
So to cheese, pizza cleave
Pizza stuck to cheese like glue
And vowed to bond after saying I do”

 

Mastering Letters and Numbers  https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10463934
by Maisie Aletha Smikle

Get ready
You are ready
I am ready
We are ready

We must earn
So let's learn
To count to ten
And use a pen

1, 2 oh no you got boo boo
3, 4 we can do more
5, 6 it's half past six
7, 8 we shan’t be late
9, 10 let's count again

To write a note
Or give a quote
You’ll need your numbers
And letters too

To succeed
Books we’ll read
Do good deed
And never speed

ABCDEFG... O my g...
HIJKLMNOP... I ran to pee
QRSTUV... We sip some tea
WXY and Z ...Let’s go and zzzz

I’ll come calling in the morning
And we'll practice till in the evening
For we shan’t give up on learning or achieving
Nor our goal to succeed in

Counting from one to ten
And writing letters with a pen
To learn we must from dawn to dusk
For education is a must”

― Maisie Aletha Smikle

Splashing Fireworks

by Maisie Aletha Smikle

Like earthly stars

Fireworks lit the skies

Flashing in magnificent grandeur

Showing off Its beauty and its splendor

Like the colors of the rainbow

Sparks flew some violet blue

Swimming floating gliding

Like starry streams colliding

Joining in an ocean of air

Then spectacularly disappear

Sprinkling glows and glitters

Of shining starry litters

Glowing and hovering gracefully in the air

We sat on a chair

And watched and cheer

To behold fireworks so dear

Mystical magical elliptical

Burst of lights so hypnotical

Splendidly arrayed beams

Appear in glowing streams

Showers of light with its mist

Mystically disperse without a twist

As sporadic lights focus in a parabolic embrace

To disseminate in space

A precious sight and delight

It is to behold fireworks dark at night

And to glimpse the bright

And beautiful light

Oh such graceful outlay

Of lights in an array

Its beauty to portray

The fireworks on display”

― Maisie Aletha Smikle   https://hookonbook.zyrosite.com/ 

 The Switch by Maisie Aletha Smikle

The day animals flip
Was the day humans trip
And humans switch
Without a twitch

And transform into beasts
And animals transform into humans making bread from yeast
From the north to the south from the west to the east
It was a grand feast

Animals churn butter and flour
Making dough every hour
Pounding and kneading
Humans come pleading

We have switched
Without a twitch
Now we are in a ditch
And won’t get rich

The animals knead and said
The planet you had from creation
Is a total malfunction
Everything is topsy turvy and out of function

You said you have gone to the moon
But you have driven families out of their cocoon
You are not civilized
To realize

This vast planet is a gifted loan
And not your own
You should have returned families to their cocoons
Cocoons that were theirs and not your own

You have no business on the moon
Mars Pluto Jupiter or Neptune
You were given one planet
Not two or three or infinite

The animals have taken over
Your time to rule is over
We will never drive a family from their cocoon
Or dare to go to the moon Mars Pluto Jupiter or Neptune

We have enough to do on planet earth
It's almost ruined to the dearth
We will reinstate clarity to its seat
And remove chaos from clarity's seat

― Maisie Aletha Smikle   https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10460933