TULIPSHELEN'S HOME LIFE Helen's home life Makes mine and Marie’s Look complacent comparatively.Her home’s a hotbed for tulips Or "two lips" – in hell!Ours a heavenly hotbed Where tulips to dwell.Oh, well! Poor “Hel.”But one never can tellFrom the outsideIf a home's a heaven or hell On the inside.It's probably just as well.
Tres Camarones = Three Shrimp Dr. Luis Alberto Urrea’s audiobook Into the Beautiful Northinspired my following lyrics: Ode To Chava Chavarin*And The Tres Camarones Teamby Stephany Spencer-LeBaron Hey!What's in a name?I can't say,But the vowels“Chava Chavarin”Ring in my ears today,Though I finishedListening to the novel yesterday.Like music in the rain,This sonorous nameIs motivating my muse'sPenning poems for play!So what's in a…
COUSIN HOMER'S KISS From my Memoir Blog: Part 19-C:Esther LeBaron Spencer – And More Perils of Polygamy(See: stephanyspencer.com) Beulah Stephany Spencer-LeBaron in 1962, age 16 on our ranch in Colonia LeBaron, Chihuahua, Mexico. Nearly all men can stand adversity,But if you want to test a man's character, Give him power.Abraham Lincoln COUSIN HOMER'S KISSIn Cousin Homer's kissThere'd be no connubial bliss.Though my first…
LOVELY LIVELY LIZARDS:The Best Things in Life Are FreeI detest supporting lazy lizards –Leeches, losers, Welfare abusers.Socialism is Welfare for Users.And it's NOT free.So loafing lizards,Penniless-paupers,Down-and-out dizzards,Jump-start yer rump,Produce some gump, Use your gizzard,And get off Welfare –Be scissored!A sloganHumbly delivered: Be part of the solution,Not Pollution Blizzard.I LOVE living lizards literally! :)-While loafers use Society,These reptiles eat pests That plague Humanity.Plus their blood poisonsLyme Ticks…
THE SANDS OF MY HOURGLASS FIGUREIN MY TIMEBy Stephany Spencer-LeBaron THE SANDS OF MY HOURGLASS FIGUREIN MY TIMEThe sands of my hourglass figure Gradually disfiguring meSay my time is almost up, I've little left To complete Life's journey.Still Time ticks away the minutesLike the handsOn my inner circadian clock.I can't make the sands stop,Nor my heart Pit-pattering tick-tockLike…
Jim Gaffigan Madigan and Gaffigan By Stephany Spencer-LeBaronBrilliant Comedian Jim GaffiganMakes me laugh then laugh again.His moniker “Mr. Universe"He has earned thru action and verse –He's a dynamo driving forward in reverse!Most comedians lewdly gesture and curse.Their Acts are loaded with smut and worse.Lacking enough humor that isn't lame,They employ obscenities –They show no shame.But…
Quotes by Stephany Spencer- LeBaron: WRITERS BLOCK Point Blank: The point at which all thought leaves the frontal lobe and one comes face-to-face with writers block.~Dan Poynter Writers Block Point Blank:Point at which one's brain is shot by the bullet of writers block.~Stephany Spencer-LeBaron WRITERS BLOCKPoint Blank: Point at which one's dry cartridge pen, pens writer "twixt target and…
Prose Is The New Poetry Photo by Nu00f3ra Zahradnu00edk on Pexels.com "A poem is never finished." PROSE IS THE NEW POETRY(Part One)Dearest Friend,Says VoltairTo hold a pen is to be at war.And don't we know it If we are a lyrical poet!For today's fake poetsHave taken the lion's share. With pen in hand And lack of care,They've derailed great poetry That once…
MY LIFE'S A WRECK Photo by Christopher More on Pexels.com My LIFE'S A TRAIN WRECKMy life's been something of a wreck, Thanks to moronic Fundy fools Who raised me in "Heck"! Distress and deprivation Have often been the worst! Wonder why I've been so cursed. Though lately my life has reversed'Cause I regularly rehearse Gratitude,…
Poems/songs I Wrote: Bio Ballads in Verse for Better or Worse Circa 1958: 11 of my parents' ultimately 14 children(I'm age 12, middle row, 2nd to left) Bio Ballad in Verse for Better or Worseby Stephany Spencer-LeBaronI was born some time agoAway out in the sticksIn Mexico’s Rocky Mountain…
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