Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 With Happy, Without Worry

Worry and I were walking down

The road, suddenly we got stuck

In a mud hole, Worry did frown,

Complaining typical bad luck.

But then, Happy walked up to us,

Offering to pull us both out.

Worry's reply was just to cuss,

Did not want Happy's help, no doubt.

Then Happy looked at me and said,

"Stay with Worry or come with me."

"We'll look for good in life instead"

"Of stuck bad here like Worry be."

With Happy, we walked on our way.

Worry, stuck in the mud, did stay.

Sense Sonnet - Acher

 I Pray for My Friend

Oh God, You once gave me the gift

Of saving me from suicide,

Body, mind and soul to uplift,

With lots of human help supplied.

Oh God, I now know of a friend

In great despair as I once be,

Thinking an unnatural end

As solution, once thought by me.

Oh God, as human help I ask

You give me strength and wisdom to

Be there for my friend, and do task,

Convincing life's worth does come true.

Oh God, I pray same gift You gave

Me, please give, my friend's life to save.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Beyond This My Life

Since birth, in my life I have had

God, and I strive to live God's will.

But over my life, I've lived bad,

Letting me be sinfully ill,

Hurting my family and friends.

Then to me some strangers God sent

To help me, and I made amends.

With any sin now, I repent

In a heartfelt and truthful way,

Knowing that God is with me to

Give me strength and faith as I pray

For God's salvation to come true.

With God in my life to forgive

My sins, eternally I'll live.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 8/8, The Lion's Gate

This August 8th, early morn, I

Wrote, "I'm ready to forgive me."

The Sun's in Leo in the sky,

And star Sirius again be

Seen, risen out of the Sun's glare.

Each 8/8 this alignment peaks,

Time a human can be aware

Of untold truth a human seeks.

The Lion's Portal opens and

Offers a window to see through,

One's self to better understand,

Opportunity to come true.

End of this 8/8, late at night,

I feel forgiven and feel right.

Sense sonnet - Tickler

 Crawling While Hauling

Addict on Coca Cola, I

Do a lot of traveling, so

I keep an abundant supply

Close to me wherever I go.

Coca Cola folks are so kind,

Sending their trucks to follow up,

No matter how hard I'm to find.

I'm provided great service, yup!

Whenever running low, I just

Send Coca Cola my email,

And very quickly I can trust,

Coca Cola comes to this snail.

Drinking Coca Cola goes well,

Suck lots from storage in my shell.

Sense Sonnet - Chiller

 Escape to Mars

The spaceship took off from Earth, and

Carried a family on course

To planet Mars where they did land.

Because they had great wealth resource,

Robots had built them a compound

With all vital necessities,

But also fancy toys abound

To live in luxurious ease.

Worldwide nuclear war on Earth

Made their escape to Mars a must,

The trillionaire no longer worth

Much in radioactive dust.

Who is the first Mars colony?

Elon Musk and his children be.

Sense Sonnet - Tickler

 Enterprise Size

Decades old the Star Trek show is.

He started with it, young and lean,

Became a star in this show biz,

Doted on each dramatic scene.

From T.V. to the movies, he

Went with the show where no one had

Gone before in celebrity.

Uniform in which he was clad

Rose in rank and in waistline girth,

As the many decades went by.

In space weighed less than weighed on Earth,

Older he got, heavier guy.

And though he's built up quite a paunch,

Captain Kirk is still out to launch.

Sense Sonnet - Acher

 Mind Forgot, Body remembered

When I was four years old, I fell

Into sagebrush on trip out west.

Rash o'er my body then did swell,

Allergy to sage by a test.

The rash cleared up, my life went on.

Sagebrush again I did not touch.

No more occasion came upon

For me to be involved with such.

Then when 84 years old, I

Saw sage burger on a menu,

That sounded good, so I did try,

Without really thinking it through.

Rash over my body did rage,

Guess I'm still allergic to sage.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Changed My Life

An ugly life I felt I had,

Just a poor, useless one who be

Stuck in a life that I deemed bad,

Not knowing life's purpose for me.

But then one day, Mom Nature came

And told me that a choice I could

Make, and that would turn real my aim,

Changing to a life I deemed good.

Since I knew Mom Nature knew best,

Hardship and pain I did endure,

But made it through the cocoon test,

And emerged the better for sure.

An ugly caterpillar, I

Now a beautiful butterfly.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 My Surrender for Victory

I made a mess out of my life,

Caused hurt with my bad thought and deed,

Stuck in a hole of stress and strife,

A miracle, I was in need.

With help, I surrendered my will,

And accepted God's will to take

Me to a future to fulfill

A better life for me to make.

With God I now live with my goal

To be a good and useful one,

Seeking salvation of my soul,

Doing so as God's will be done.

The bad of me I leave behind,

The good of me with God to find.

Sense Sonnet - Acher

 His Lasting Gift

Mom and daughter stand on the beach,

Say goodbye to husband and Dad,

His ashes spread in the sea, each

Hold close the other, feeling sad.

Both begin walking back home, and

The daughter takes a moment to

Bend and pick me up from the sand,

Then gave me to her Mom, who knew

That somehow I was meant to be

A gift from him, reminding of

His giving forever through me

To Mom and daughter, all his love.

In their home, in their hearts I dwell,

His spirit in me, this sea shell.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Please Pardon Me

A bumblebee is flying o'er

A bunch of flowers down below,

Where will be sweet nectar galore,

So in a beeline there does go.

But then the bumblebee does grouse,

Seeing the flowers being picked

One by one by a tiny mouse.

The bumblebee does buzz quite ticked,

"Hey mouse, you're picking flowers I"

"Thirst for, your picking better end."

The very scared mouse does reply,

"I'm sorry, they're for my girlfriend."

The mouse does get a pardoning

From the bumblebee's lethal sting.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 I am a Child of God

A child of God born to this Earth,

I was told by my parents, and

Was taught to believe in such worth,

When old enough to understand.

My parents introduced me to

Jesus, the Son of God, who would

Be my sure friend and help me do

The will of God by living good.

As I grew to an adult, I

Made mistakes, and Jesus helped me

To seek God's forgiveness with my

Living as child of God I be.

With the help that Jesus does give,

This child of God does better live.

Sense Sonnet - Acher

 Reunited

They fell in young love, she and he,

When next door neighbors they both were.

Years old, she was two, he was three,

Lovely couple they made for sure.

Then for both of them came sad day.

Their folks helped them to bid farewell.

She with her family moved away.

Now far apart, but fate would tell.

For a long time, the lives they led

Did not include each other, till

Fate brought them together to wed,

And a reunion to fulfill.

They're still in love forevermore,

She's ninety three, he's ninety four.

Sense Sonnet - Steamer

 I am Rikki in His Song

Many years later I found out

I am the Rikki in his song,

Apparently written about

His feelings he had very strong,

Meeting me at a social dance.

And his phone number he then gave

To me, an awkward circumstance.

I had no intention to save

His number, and later forgot

About him at this dance event.

But then a hit song this guy got

On this phone number incident.

Tossed his number, admittedly,

Cuz happily married I be.

Sense Sonnet - Steamer

 Double Draw

"Draw water from the well," the wife

Does order me in her stern voice.

This chore always fills me with strife,

But do so cuz I have no choice.

At last I pull the bucket up,

Which makes me so thirsty, so

I tip the bucket like a cup,

And all the water in does go

Down my throat, and then I return

To the wife, empty bucket in

My hand, now she tells me real stern,

I have to draw water again.

Draw water from the well, but I'm

Too scared to drink any this time.

Sense Sonnet - Steamer

 Random Passersby

Busy street, I was walking down.

A panhandler did glare at me.

Being new to this part of town,

I hoped no trouble there would be.

Then this panhandler got up from

Where he'd been sitting on the street,

And in my direction did come.

Then face to face, we two did meet,

As strangers in this time and place,

But connected in lives we live.

The panhandler, scowl on his face,

A stern message to me did give.

The panhandler made me aware

That I need panhandle elsewhere.

Sense Sonnet - Tickler

 Color Me Orange

Being the color orange, I seek

Among all the other colors be

One individually unique,

That is only true about me.

So I pondered a while on it,

A uniqueness found, I know it,

Choose to tell of in a sonnet,

Being a wannabe poet.

Uniqueness of me that occurred,

When I tried rhyming with me, orange,

I share no perfect rhyming word.

The closest is two words, door hinge.

Then purple reminded me I'm

Not only color with no rhyme.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Walt Named Me

When Walt Disney brought me to life,

He named me after goddess of

Wisdom, but not liked by Walt's wife.

So nicknamed Minnie, to be love

Of his long life, my Mickey Mouse.

He can be dumb, so I'm the voice

Of calm and reason 'round our house.

So for him, I've been a good choice.

Now in my nineties, I have had

A wonderful life in show biz,

Older and wiser, but so glad

For my life with Mickey, gee whiz!

As gal with wisdom be Walt's aim,

He gave "Minerva" my real name.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 My Big Scene

One of thousands of extras, I

Am picked for this scene as the one

Being chased by the cowboy guy,

He on his horse and me all run.

The best an extra could have hoped.

A lariat loop swinging 'round,

Its purpose is that I get roped

As a stray maverick on the bound.

Of course I knew the scene calls for

Me getting caught and branded be.

So my scene stealing all the more

Brings out the action steer in me.

No speaking part, but I take pride

In my action scene in "Rawhide."