First impressions

A baby girl explores the world
And marvels as it is unfurled.

Now Liv is finding as she goes
How little of this life she knows!
It certainly is for the best
To stay in place by Mummy's breast.
Yet sometimes, though, it's far from easy
To find a way of not being queazy
When Nature fills her face with frowns
And sends a batch of ups and downs.
But wait - it's well worth while, on balance,
To greet the fun of each day's challenge!

Easter time

All hearts rejoice at Easter time
When nature wakes and poets rhyme.
Dull Winter turns to vibrant Spring
And birds their vibrant chorus sing.
The Sun  heats up the lengthening day
While in his rays the children play
And by their side, in fur and fluff,
The Easter bunnies flop and puff.

Mr Turner

See him threading through the viewing artists
In the hanging room - Mr Turner, scalpel
In his hand! Before his own marine
He stops, and boldly lays a crimson charge
Upon the waterscape of ship and sea -
Then turns in satisfaction and retires.
The company he leaves is in amaze
To see the desecration he has wrought -
But, as they wonder at his aim, he's back,
And with his thumb produces from his daub
A heaving buoy afloat upon the main,
Which underscores the drama at a stroke
And shows how genius may work its way.

A patriot new

You read the information whole
Then took the test to reach your goal,
With confidence that in no wise
You might have failed to gain the prize.

Congratulations! You have won
The status of American.
Enjoy the welcome consequence
On each and every incidence
When from the lofty sky you sink
And smile contentedly to think:

"Much simpler now to come and go,
Avoiding where the lines are slow
For all those folks who must confess
To being merely non-US".

This much the better do you stand
When you alight in your new land.