idiotic therapeutic
wishy washy boo hoo
sticks and stones
Do words break bone?
crazy as a cuckoostop your sobbin silly robin
wings to fly
beak for bobbin
skippin to my lu-lu
trigger warning
every morning
scaredy catdon't do that
just accept your boo boo
toughen up
buttercupbatter up
and to yourself
be true true
by Richard W. Bray
The quiet of the sky
The passion of the trees
The wisdom of the rocks
Educating me
Unremembered kindness
Murmurs in the breeze
The wonders of a world
That willed itself to be
Experience the grandeur
Of a world that isn’t clean
Open up your senses
Pull away from the screen
by Richard W. Bray
Eights and sevens
Threes and twos
Math brings everything
Into view
Trapezoid, rhombus
Cubes and squares
Imagine, calculate
And compare
Fraction, cosine
Denominator
Essential tools
To make us greater
Find the difference
Plot the graph
Perceive, predict
And build with math
Engineer, geologist
Statistician, nurse
Math paints a picture
Of the universe
Tessellation
Infinity
Contemplating
Reality
by Richard W. Bray
Wacky doodle doo
I just lost my shoe
Hopping off to school
I never follow rules
Hip hip Horatio
I live in outer spacio
Napping on the moon
I'll visit Venus soon
Sippy Ki-Yay
My juice box is ok
Free Fi Fo Fum
He never bothered anyone
I don't know the muffin man
Too dense, too dry, and too much bran
Get it off my table
I'll have another bagel
Roses are yellow
Davey is mellow
Violets are purple
Tammy likes myrtle
Big Bo Peep
She don't need no sheep
She's happy, smart, and rich
And sweaters make her itch
by Richard W. Bray
Beware the Wooky Wabble
In the Torple Tapple Tree
He vexonted Carroll Lewis
And he almost blurbled me
Beware the Wooky Wabble
Deceptive in its art
He looks just like a nuknak
But he’s wipple wapple smart
Beware the Wooky Wabble
With his chriomatic forge
He swings a brutesome blade
Lacerating Gordon George
Beware the Wooky Wabble
He sporpled Miss D.H.
She keeps on writing books
But they’re only one page
Beware the Wooky Wabble
He bedeviled Milton John
He behemothed Shelley Percy
Till the raspity of dawn
by Richard W. Bray
Shooting star across the sky
Oh my God, we’re gonna die
I never want to walk around
There’s a chance I might fall down
Live a life of melodrama
Stay inside and call your mama
If that girl won’t go out with me
I’ll live a life of misery
If I’m not getting perfects marks
I’ll be sleeping in the park
When every hill’s a mountaintop
The agony will never stop
I got a pain inside my head
Pretty soon I will be dead
Every surface must be scoured
I boil my food for several hours
Breathe and think and slow your hurry
You don’t need to feed your worry
by Richard W. Bray
unruly, rambunctious, exhausting and wild
there’s no greater love than the love of a child
boundless, colossal, extending for miles
there is no restraining the love of a child
needy and hopeful, touching and mild
the heaviest burden, the love of a child
investing your marrow, refunded in smiles
there’s no greater love than the love of a child
by Richard W. Bray
Henny Henny Penny says
“The sky is falling down
Pack up everything you got
And get out of town”
Henny Henny Penny says
“It’s never been this bad
The world is off its rocker
And everyone is mad”
Henny Henny Penny says
“Life don’t make no sense
I need a load of bricks
To build a bigger fence”
Henny Henny Penny says
“Never go outside
It’s a crazy crazy world
So find a place to hide”
Henny Henny Penny says
“Protect your mental health
You don’t want to go crazy
Like everybody else”
By Richard W. Bray