How's it going?

I'm loving the New Year as I've made changes in my schedule. No longer teaching family history sunday school classes or doing the HWG-Heritage Writers Guild Newsletter, I have time to add new things. Today I attended my Image Catchers camera club and made contact with a retired professor who will help me learn how to make an IMovie with the .mov files I made of my newborn grand daughter Lorien. Then I joined the local chapter of Utah Poets Society and attended their first meeting. We had a lesson on poetic forms then read some of our own poems and got a critique. I'm been writing children's animal poems like crazy since I overcame my slump after the holiday season. I'll include another free verse one here. On to new adventures in the new year. I love it!

SKUNKS-OH NO! by Lin Floyd

Skunks are the crazy-est stinky-est critter ever
If you don’t believe me then you haven't met one
They are easy to find with just one white stripe
Right down their back, the rest of them is black
Their smell you won’t forget especially if
They ever spray you, you’ll stink forever
Only a tomato juice bath and time will help
Anyone coming near you will yelp “oh no”

I Met LORIEN

New baby impressions, meet your future-your posterity
Tiny features, perfect 10 finger and 10 toes, sculpted ears
Awkward arms and legs just learning to work, blurry
Eyes not focused yet but trusting whoever holds her

A gift from heaven, a marvelous creation that copies
Others born before, a little of mom and a little of dad
Add a new personality and spirit just sent here to us
A life in embryo, her future awaits with each new day

More Children's Poems

HIPPO by Lin Floyd

Ever seen a hippopotamus
They are huge and enjoy the water
Whether in the zoo or a jungle
It helps them get around easier



So big they can’t see their behind
You don’t want to get in their way
Or you could be squashed into a pulp
Or stomped into the mud like clay



They like to find plants that grow
Nearby and they eat lots and lots of
Whatever is available, so watch what

You eat or you could become a hippo