She birthed, changed, fed, clothed,
taught and loved him. In his new/
life, he stood her up.
OR
She birthed, changed, fed, clothed,
taught and loved him. In his new/
life, he stood her up.
OR
A child with a good/
relation with his mom should/
never stand her up.
The appearance of
joy seems easy to maintain,
yet habits die hard.
I’d do anything
for my kids, except mindread,
‘cuz I suck at it.
Behold, I’ve become
Daddi-o, destroyer of/
my relationships.
Ten-plus deciduous,
mixed with a few evergreens:
more than a dozen
shade-givers are seen
from my back window
in the sunset’s glow.
All wrapped as she plays
improv piano.
Life’s good,
and you grow,
when nature’s understood,
and when you know.
It’s not knowledge gained by some parchmented degree.
It’s what people, plants, air, earth, water, life, daily give to me.
When your life is lived/
environmentally, each/
day is an Earth Day.
Decades passed since I/
cleaned the Milwaukee River./
This Earth Day, I plant.
When you’re trying to/
start, push in the clutch and brake./
Make sure you’ve got fuel.
OR
When you’re trying to /
start, push in the clutch, then make/
sure your gas tank’s full.
Out on a tree’d hill he stood,
walking in the buggy grass;
never caring he was that good;
never thinking to place high in his class.
‘Neath scaled hickories without effort
(it seemed), he read, wrote, studied.
With his cousins on and in X’d videos he’d cavort,
whether the paths were pulsing, dry or muddied.
He sparred with great wit and thought
as he discussed, with authors, literature.
He pondered and argued upon what he got
from reading ancient and revealed Scripture.
At last, now, as BigEP reaches a good childhood’s end,
Let us salute the brain’d heights of this Salutatorian!