FUN

(c) Stephanie R. Josiah 2012

Applesauce, ant farms, and alley cats
Buttons, braids, and beads
Crayons, clay, coffins, and crab feasts
Dads, departures, and dolls

Easter eggs, elephant masks and eyeballs
Fudge, freeze pops, and friends
Glitter, glue, Garfield, gummy worms and glow sticks
Heart attacks, Heaven, and hamsters

Ice cream, insects, and imprints
Jellybeans, jump rope and jiggles
Kites, knights, Kit-Kats and kisses
Letters, lemons, and language

Moustaches, M&Ms, and magic wands
Night lights, nightgowns, and Nutella
Octopus, overalls, Olive Oil and
Popeye, passports, and planes

Quests, quizzes, and questions
Raisinets, rubies, and rainbows
Sandwiches, storms, solitude, and sleep deprivation
Turtles, Twister, and turtlenecks

Umbrellas, undershirts, and uncles
Violet, vultures, and vests
Watches, waiting, and wishing
X-rays, X-men, and "X" marks the spot

Yams, youth, and yelling
Zippers, Zig-Zags, and Ziggy

I remember everything
but I had forgotten the FUN.

Silly Putty and Shhhhhhhhhht

(C) Stephanie R. Josiah 2012


Today a new feeling has slipped up on me.
Something I had forgotten
perhaps trapped between the silly putty
and the toy I wedged it in


I never did get that dang putty out
I digress
a dream I had
a way I wanted to be before this world


ripped that plan out of my hands
and replaced it with a steaming
terd
no rainbows anymore


just feces
and I've been shoveling the
"stuff" this life and "their" butts
or mouths have leaked


ever since
well I say "no more".
I may have to step around it
when you drop it


but I'm not picking it up for you
I remember that little girl
27 years of dreaming
and princes riding in to save the day


they never came, they always left
and they still do
but I
I still have me


and those dreams
I scribbled in putty
everyone else can keep their
shhhhhhhht

Squeeze Yourself IN!!!

"To live but to not be your best self is to die from the slow poison of cowardice. Dare to be better than you've ever been... You deserve to bless yourself too. If you've forgotten that, treat yourself to a beautiful day doing something that feeds what is beautiful about you. Squeeze it in now... Later may not catch your dreams!!" SRJ from *Dusty Childhood Dream Box*