Adjectively Alliterating Animals

Angry, addled Alligators
Belching, burping Bushbabies
Crazy, clockwork Crocodiles
Daring, dancing Dodobirds
Effusive, elegant Elephants
Fizzy, frolicking Flamingos
Gargantuan Galloping Gazelles!
Happily hicupping Hippopotomus' (mi?)
Irritated, irked, irate Iguanas
Jealous, jiggling Jaguars
Kaftaned, knickerbockered Kangaroos
Loopy, lazy Lemurs
Mousy, mumbling Mongooses
Napping, natal Nudibranchs
Onerous, oblong Orangutans
Plinking, petulant Platypus' (pi?)
Quizzical, queerish Quahogs
Righteous, rankled Reindeer
Slippery, socialized Sables
Tripping, tantalizing Turtles
Undulating, uppity Uakari
Vituperous, vanquishing Vervets
Worried, winsome Wildebeestes
Xenophobic, xanthocarpous Xemes
Yearning, yiddish Yorkies
Zygodactyl, zymogenic Zenaidas

Yesterday's post for the Birthday Boy.

I remember when you were so little
I could hold you asleep and lying down
With only one of my arms.
I remember when you would take my glasses
And slobber all over them.
I remember when you would stick your hands into my face,
Into my mouth, my nose, my ears,
The way you do to the dog now.
I remember when you had a little bald head,
With the soft spot I was afraid for.
Now you're growing so big.
You're kind, sharing your fruit snacks or M&M's.
Your hair is getting so long.
It's yellow and curly, and makes me think of the story you like,
Goldilocks and the three bears.
You love throwing rocks into the water.
Whenever we take Black to the beach,
or walk down to the bridge by the river,
You throw rock, after rock, after rock,
Watching the splashes get carried away by the swift current.
Your favorite thing ever though is Cars.
Lightning McQueen and Mater,
Mister The King.
Even Frank.
Anything that has wheels.
You want to go fast.
You run as fast as you can down the sidewalk,
And it scares me, because sometimes you trip.
But you're always so stoic.
You stand up and say, "Yup, I'm okay."
Brushing off my concern and getting back to the serious business of running.

It's that special time of year

Alright my Darling Dearests!! It's every day in May again! Look forward to the only time of the year where you get a post every day! And today's poem is....


Somewhere over the Rainbow.

Take me over the rainbow she says,
Over the rainbow with you.
Take me over the rainbow she says,
Into the sky so blue.
Oh I'm weary of earth and troubles I see
I'm tired of working and thinking, Take me!
Over the rainbow to somewhere new
Take me, oh take me! Take me with you.

I was counting on you

Fortythree, fifteen, twenty, five.
Will we get out of this mess alive?
Five, twenty, fifteen, forty, three.
Why on earth are you asking me?

Morning scriptures

Early this morning Mom rousted us from bed,
And we all gathered in the living room
To read scriptures together.
And today was a little nicer than usual.

Easter.

I used to wonder, while I was dying eggs
Or eating candy, If I'd lost sight of the Savior.
If He felt sorrow that I think of other things,
That He does not take up one hundred per cent of my Easter.
But then I looked at my brother's face,
Holding up a blue easter egg.
And I thought to myself,
Someone who loves us so much
Can't possibly be sad about such a happy face.
He is Risen! And I shall tell it out with JOYful voice!!!!

A description of myself at twenty one.

I am a woman of passion.
I know what I love, beauty, light, life.
The ability to feel and know.
I seek out perfection in everything,
As a child instinctively seeks for learning.

I have little tolerance for faults,
My own and other's,
But that is something I am striving to mellow.

I am beginning to see my life not so much as a journey to an end or a thing to be endured,
But a series of moments to be enjoyed,
Learned from, or simply lived as the case may be,
Leading up to a moment where I will account for all of my other moments.
And in that moment I wish to say I have never wasted a moment.

I have an idea of where I want to go with my life.
I know I love to write, and it must be a part of my life.
I know I am a family woman,
And I will be happier if I have family of my own,
But I can still be happy without that.
I know I need to maintain a relationship with Heavenly Father.
That is how I stay happy.

I am a basically cheerful person by choice.
Being an introspective, deep thinker with a tendency to melancholia,
My attitude is a battle I fight often.
I can be very social, but I need alone time in between.
I crave balance,
Sometimes the middle road,
Sometimes swinging between extremes,
But always balanced.

I can seem far away from you.
Speaking through a filter.
I'm not, I don't know why this is.
Perhaps because I feel so deeply,
I try too hard to protect myself.
I'm speaking through my armor.
If I know you long enough,
My shields will go away.
I will let you into my world.
I wish I could let people in more easily.
Those I do let in I lavish with my love.