I love birthdays
Welcome down to Earth days
Full of fun and mirth days
Widening the girth days
Evaluating worth days
Leading back to earth days
I love birthdays!
In response to Celebrations prompt. Photo from Pexels.com by Ivan Samkov
Tag Archives: Norah Colvin
To A Spider by Norah Colvin
1 CommentNow look here, Spider, I’m grateful to you,
For eating flies and cockroaches too.
But in my shower when it’s time for my bath –
That, I’m afraid, incurs my wrath.
With this broom, I’ll chase you out.
Please don’t jump or you’ll make me shout.
Stay very still while I get the brush,
Then into the toilet for one big flush.
Oh, poor little spider, what have I done?
I’ve gone and killed you. That’s not fun.
You didn’t deserve it, not one bit.
You should have hidden where my broom couldn’t fit.
Another spider? Does this make two?
Are you a brother? Oh no . . . it’s you!
I thought you drowned, but you’re still alive!
What’s your secret? How’d you survive?
Now you’re back, I am relieved.
No longer must I be aggrieved.
But please take heed, my leggy friend.
Don’t come too close – it will be your end.
Image by jacob french from Pixabay
Man, It’s Hot! by Norah Colvin
Leave a commentThey stood side by side in a paddock one day,
Two tall gentlemen watching children at play.
When seen from a distance they both looked the same,
Just silently watching, not joining the game.
The sun warmed them gradually, ever so slow,
The heat barely noticed till both had to go.
“It’s hot!” said the first as he left for the day.
The second said nothing, just melted away.
When later the children came looking around,
Not even one trace of the men could be found.
With sadness they realised what they had forgot:
That snowmen can’t last when the weather gets hot!
Science Questions Everything by Norah Colvin
3 CommentsAn infinity of questions
To ignite imaginations
To wonder
How and what and why
And where it all began
First observations
Then explorations
Sought answers
To these central questions
Posed by curiosity
Behold –
A single singularity
Big bang!
That’s where it all began
From one united infinity
Now diverse plurality
A myriad variety
Evolving
Throughout history
A complicated tapestry
Including all
The large and small
Everything and
You and me
Questing for elucidation
Clearing any obfuscation
Defying myths
And superstition
Disproving pseudo- explanations
Based on weak interrogation
Of the vast enormity
Of the universe miscellany
Engaging disputation
Sparks
Research investigation
Inspires ingenuity
Seeks understanding, clarity
Until with evidence
Reveals
The mysteries no longer sealed
No longer fraught with
Trepidation due to
Ignorant misperception
For Science and discovery
Unveils what is
For all to see
A Very Funny Animal by Norah Colvin
23 CommentsIt isn’t quite a beaver, though it has a beaver’s tail,
A freshwater-living mammal, much smaller than a whale.
It’s something like an otter with body dressed in fur.
Its bill and feet are duck-like but it has a poisonous spur.
It burrows into riverbanks to lay its eggs therein.
It swims around in waters while having not one fin.
If you come across it, I urge you not to scream.
It wouldn’t ever harm you. It’s just a monotreme.
Its name can be quite tricky, but you’ll learn it without fuss.
So try:
Or –
Or – nith – or
Ornithorhynchus,
You might call it the platypus.
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