A jeep - bro'-peepnever lies - can't stammer
dad with his charming smile
and wielding his ballpeen hammer
a non-glamor pose - smile
that leader's red nose glows
Dad fixed General MacArthur's favorite
cart
dad - Vern - hum for me;
laugh you happy fart
Smile for me
MY DIANE
sum dumb fool
move mai guy pan to
what a canal gal
and the Honey B29
Parody-deliberately
spell it wrong - the fun is
mine
just a pair of dux
ducks in a line
Metaphor and traded bucks
while
Rudolph the red
knows rain dear
daddy writes on pain
here
never flown
passed him by
the sweet bird of youth
that does not fly
but it whimpers
growls - really sings
rusty pole
and Kayla swings!
With joy, she flies - captured attitude
eyes of love
positive altitude
did you think I should change
all those lines around
If I did
would YOU get off the ground?
Either way edit - it's mine; dear author
yet interpretation is thine - and you're entitled to bother!
Sweet flies; youth prevails
happy appreciative heart of love
with might - delight; freedom sails
Like fresh paint and summer sun
Kayla glides in August fun
Yes - she won
the beauty through her words and eyes
"Thank you, Gramps" - and Grandma Lisa
cries...
What's revealed - no Pandora, it is not sealed
FREE BIRD - Styx - pick me up with 'licks'
Chops - brow mops
dancing toes; tired
flops....
Whisks of hair without despair
beauty oh my precious flier
how you'd have lit
Great Great Grandpa's fire!
SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH - would have grabbed him by the middle
unraveling my father's sinister poem;
the one that contained a riddle
With no more quibble, dad would giggle
and his 'gufaw'
would fly with 'Old Crow' - that had rendered dad
a paralyzed 'south-paw'
Dad - Old Crow - this bird carried him through
flash-back fights;
it had flown so fiercely
on those dark, night-marish
'Bourbon' nights!
Dawn - sun - Kayla dear
"V" is humming
loud and clear
Dad, I think the day is coming
can you hear that 'hummer' humming?
I wrote this on 9/21/98 - the day they announced the 'FOR GO-ANYWHERE DRIVER; IT'S A HUM-DINGER!"
This was the 'lead story' on the new Hum-V; written by Jim Mateia, Chicago Tribute (photo of the auto acrobat - 4-wheel-drive Hummer; can go almost anywhere off the road; ride sideways along a 22-degree slope - climb a 31-degree grade, and ford a stream almost 3 feet deep.
