Make Fun Of Life! - Beaumont's Bits

Hedgehog Lane

4/4/2024

Hedgehog Lane

I live on Hedgehog Lane.
     They are everywhere here,
These little hedging hogs,
     Hogging all the hedges.

But I don’t mind.
     Am I concerned?
Not in the least - why?
     Because I am a hedgehog!

By David Hugh Beaumont

David Hugh Beaumont was born in 1966 in the United States of America. He is a website content creator, a writer, a researcher, and an editor.

The Praise Project

1/31/2023

Words, 'The Praise Project, By David Hugh Beaumont, Visit www.MakeFunOfLife.net'

What is happening in our world? We are presently experiencing an epidemic of destructive criticism and personal condemnation, which demoralizes, tears down, and destroys people. We are constantly told what we must not do, but not told enough about what we can do. We are reminded of all of our shortcomings and rarely of our good qualities. We hear so much of the bad and so little of the good. The world is cold and gray, man is wolf to man, and life is nothing other than bleak. In this toxic environment, people are starving for something else.

Part of that something else is praise. People want recognition of their good qualities and accomplishments, both great and small, and you can give them that recognition. Praise builds people up and strengthens our relationships with them. Praise makes people feel worthy and valued.

Simply stated, praising the good can increase the good.

Praise is desirable in motivating individuals and groups. Whether teaching, coaching, counseling, parenting, supervising, or leading, acknowledging the performance of those we observe or interact with is of immense benefit to them and to our relationships with them. However, instead of always using well-worn expressions such as, “Good,” try working some of the following praises into your interactions.

Absolutely the best!
Admirable.
Aren’t you all gussied up today?
Awesome!
Beaucoup kudos!
Beautiful.
Best yet.
Bravo!
Brilliant.
Clearly a superior job.
Clever!
Commendable.
Congratulations!
Couldn’t have done it better myself.
Cream of the crop.
Do your best.
Dynamite!
Everyone is working so hard.
Excellent choice, sir / madam.
Excellent!
Exceptional.
Exemplary.
Extraordinary.
Fabulous.
Fantastic job!
Fantastic!
Fine workmanship.
Fine!
First-class.
First-rate.

Flawless.
Good for you!
Good going!
Good helper.
Good progress.
Good show.
Good thinking!
Good work!
Great!
I am glad you are in my life.
I am on your side.
I am proud of you.
I am very proud of you.
I am with you.
I appreciate your hard work.
I believe in you.
I knew you could do it.
I like it.
I like the way you are working.
I like your style.
I love it!
I wish I had more employees like you!
I’m happy to see you working like that.
I’m proud of the way you worked today.
I’m so proud of you!
Impressive.
Keep it up!

Picture of a surface on which people have written the words of encouragement, 'Bravo, Awesome, Superb, Excellent, Wow, Wonderful, Brilliant, Congratulations, Amazing, Keep It Up, Good Job, Perfect, Good Work, and Great.'

Keep up the good work!
Looking good.
Looking sharp.
Magnificent.
Marvelous!
Meritorious.
More than equal to expectations.
Much better!
Nice going.
Nice work
Nicely done.
Nifty.
Not bad.
Nothing can stop you now!
Now that’s what I call a fine job!
Now you have it!
Now you’ve figured it out.
Now you’ve got the hang of it.
Outstanding!
Perfect!
Phenomenal.
Praiseworthy.
Primo.
Right on!
See what you can do when you try.
Sensational!
Singular.
Smart.
Spectacular.
Splendid!
Splendiferous!
Stellar performance.
Super job.
Super!
Superb!
Terrific!
Thanks for the support.
Thanks, everybody, you are all so very helpful!
That is better than ever.
That is great!
That is it!
That is really nice.
That’s coming along nicely.
That’s fantastic!
That’s perfect.
That’s so good!
That’s the best you’ve ever done.
That’s the right way to do it.
That’s the way to do it.
That’s the way!
The world is a better place with you in it!
The world needs more people like you.
Top-notch.
Tremendous!
Way to be!
Way to go!
We couldn’t have done it without you.
We need more like you.
Well done.
Well, look at you go!
Wonderful grades.
Wonderful!
Wow!
You aced it.

You are a class act.
You are a good friend.
You are a joy to be around!
You are a man / woman wise beyond your years.
You are a marvel.
You are a real great person to have around!
You are a real pro.
You are a real professional.
You are a valued member of the team.
You are a winner.
You are doing that much better today.
You are incredible!
You are looking dapper.
You are one of life’s little gems.
You are really learning a lot.
You are so helpful!
You are so kind!
You are so smart.
You are so thoughtful!
You are special!
You are very good at that.
You brighten my day!
You can do it.
You did it that time!
You did that very well.
You figured that out fast.
You got it right.
You have a great attitude!
You haven’t missed a thing.
You made my day!
You make it look easy.
You make me smile!
You must have been practicing!
You outdid yourself today!
You shine!
You’re #1!
You’re a shining star!
You’re a star student!
You’re a tribute to humankind!
You’re amazing.
You’re doing a great job.
You’re doing beautifully.
You’re doing fine.
You’re first class all the way.
You’re getting better every day.
You’re great.
You’re groovy.
You’re incredible.
You’re learning fast.
You’re number one!
You’re on the right track now!
You’re really improving.
You’re really working hard today.
You’re sharp as tacks.
You’re smart.
You’re so talented!
You’re the best!
You’ve got that down pat!
You’ve just about got it.
You’ve just about mastered that!
Your accomplishment is, like, so stellar!
Your hard work finally paid off.
Your work is top-notch.

The above list is far, far from complete, and likely could use some improvements. What words of encouragement have you used with people that you would like to add?

by David Hugh Beaumont

David Hugh Beaumont was born in 1966 in the United States of America. He is a website content creator, a graphic designer, a photographer, a writer, a researcher, and an editor.

Old Shoe

4/23/2022

Picture of an old tennis shoe with green and red moss growing on it, lying on the ground.

Old Shoe

Old shoe, where have you been?
     Old shoe, what do you know?
Old shoe, what have you seen?
     Old shoe, how old are you now?

Old shoe, whatever are we to do?
     Old shoe, have you traveled this road before?
Old shoe, how can we know what is true?
     Old shoe, are we there yet?

Old shoe, how high are the skies?
     Old shoe, what rhymes with orange?
Old shoe, how deep are the seas?
     Old shoe, do you have the answers?

Old shoe, what have you been up to?
     Old shoe, what is new in the world?
Old shoe, why just look at you!
     Old shoe, what should everyone know?

by David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)

David Hugh Beaumont was born in 1966 in the United States of America. He is a website content creator, a graphic designer, a photographer, a writer, a researcher, and an editor.

A Home in a Fairy Tale

5/14/2021

Picture of a gingerbread house, with lollipop trees and lollipop flowers, in the midst of a woods of evergreen trees, under a clear blue sky

A Home in a Fairy Tale

Shall we venture to the distant lands of fairy tales,
     Where a wondrous and marvelous home can be
Made of straw or stones or sticks,
     And be a hut, a palace, or a nest in a tree?

Let us amble to the far-off lands of fairy tales,
     Where of all the homes so quaint or dandy
Perhaps the ones most splendid,
     Are made of gingerbread, frosting, and candy!

by David Hugh Beaumont: “If You Believe in Fairy Tales: A Book for a Child or a Grownup”

David Hugh Beaumont was born in 1966 in the United States of America. He is a website content creator, a graphic designer, a photographer, a writer, a researcher, and an editor.

Frogs

4/1/2020

Frogs

Be nice to frogs because
     In enchanted fairy tales
Of long ago and far away
     Frogs are princes in disguise.

Wicked witches who cast their spells
     Placed their blackest magic
On sons of kings and sons of queens
     And turned them into frogs.

But spells were cast
     To be broken
By kisses made
     Or counter-spells spoken.

So the frog that lives in a pond
     And the frog that lives in a tree
Just need a kiss from you
     And suddenly they’re royalty.

by David Hugh Beaumont: “If You Believe in Fairy Tales: A Book for a Child or a Grownup”

David Hugh Beaumont was born in 1966 in the United States of America. He is a website content creator, a graphic designer, a photographer, a writer, a researcher, and an editor.

Everybody Cheer for a Polar Bear!

2/11/2020

Everybody Cheer for a Polar Bear!

Black nose, white hairs,
     Wave your paws in the air
Like you have no cares -
     ’Cause you’re a Polar Bear!

Swimming in frigid water, as you please
     With body below and nose above, it’s all there
And you won’t freeze - no, you won’t freeze -
     ’Cause you’re a Polar Bear!

Leaping from ice chunk to ice chunk, as you go
     All around in the ever-changing Arctic ice flow
A rugged life in the cold and snow is what you know -
     ’Cause you’re a Polar Bear!

You say it’s lovely, all the frozen world over
     And here comes another blizzard, in the icy cold air
As you gobble and gorge on raw seal blubber -
     ’Cause you’re a Polar Bear!

by David Hugh Beaumont

David Hugh Beaumont was born in 1966 in the United States of America. He is a website content creator, a graphic designer, a photographer, a writer, a researcher, and an editor.

Really Big Hole

2/10/2020

Really Big Hole

There’s a really big hole in the ground
     And you’d better not come around
Because you might fall in, without a sound
     And never - no, not ever - be found!

Your friends and foes
     Will never again behold
Your hair or toes,
     Chin or ears or eyes or nose!

Go growl like a grizzly bear in the woods,
     Cluck like a chicken and scratch the ground,
Or be a mercantile and sell some goods,
     Even chase some squirrels like a hound!

Just don’t ever come around
     This place, where there’s
A spectacularly huge, gigantic
     Really big hole in the ground!

by David Hugh Beaumont

David Hugh Beaumont was born in 1966 in the United States of America. He is a website content creator, a graphic designer, a photographer, a writer, a researcher, and an editor.

The Noisy Monkey

2/9/2020

The Noisy Monkey

I am the noisy monkey!
     I carry a stick so I can bang,
On everything I can -
     Clunk-clunk, cling-clang!

Thump, wump, da-da-bam!
     Rhythm I have not,
Or perhaps it is irregular -
     Clunk-clunk, cling-clang!

I am the noisy monkey!
     Heard here and there,
Throughout the land -
     Clunk-clunk, cling-clang!

Da-da-da-da-da-da!
     I know nothing of music,
But I do like making sounds -
     Clunk-clunk, cling-clang!

by David Hugh Beaumont

David Hugh Beaumont was born in 1966 in the United States of America. He is a website content creator, a graphic designer, a photographer, a writer, a researcher, and an editor.

Bebe the Honeybee

1/20/2020

Bebe the Honeybee

Bebe the Honeybee,
Always as busy as can bee!
No time time to bee sad,
No time to bee a trouble!

Always on the move,
Always on the double!
Everybody’s all a-buzz,
About Bebe the Honeybee!

by David Hugh Beaumont

David Hugh Beaumont was born in 1966 in the United States of America. He is a website content creator, a writer, a researcher, and an editor.

The Happy Song

12/26/2019

The Happy Song

Have a happy song in your heart,
     Keep a merry melody in mind.
Whistle while you work,
     Put a little dance in your step!

Think happy thoughts,
     As if that’s all you’ve been taught.
While living this life,
     Dwell on the good it has brought!

Say it with a smile,
     Go blissfully humming along.
Everybody has happiness in them,
     Joy is awaiting your discovery!

by David Hugh Beaumont

David Hugh Beaumont was born in 1966 in the United States of America. He is a website content creator, a writer, a researcher, and an editor.

Beaumont’s Quotations

12/25/2019

Beaumont’s Quotations

“A smile a day helps to chase the gloomies away!” -David Hugh Beaumont

“About the time you start to think you are fairly sane, you come to the realization that you are only somewhere between being a nutty minimalist and a crazy hoarder in this world.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“All around the world, there are people who are making real the things they first created in their imaginations, and so can you.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“All things in life tend to come to us in one of two forms, either as a blessing or as a lesson.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“Anything can happen anywhere anytime to anyone.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“Are people who say they do not like children saying that they do not like themselves in earlier form?” -David Hugh Beaumont

“At first, we copied nature in our art . . . and as our species sought to improve . . . we copied nature in our technology . . . and then off to the stars we sped.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“Ba + 2(na) = Banana.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“Becoming an expert is possible if you are willing to start out knowing nothing about a subject.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“Between wishes and realizations lie long hours of effort.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“Children must be protected against the dangers and unpleasantness of life until they are physically strong enough and mentally tough enough to fend for themselves. They must be taught how to handle difficulties by people who know how to do so.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“Do your best with every day, every hour, every minute, and every fraction thereof, because the clock is running down, and in about the blink of an eye, your time on this Earth will be used up and gone.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“Each of us knows a little, and together, we know a lot.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“Every person is right on some things and wrong on other things.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“Everybody tells us what we cannot do. It would be a nice change if people would tell us what we can do.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“Few poor people are criminals, but most criminals are poor people, because despite all the glamour associated with them as they are portrayed in popular culture and in the entertainment media, the majority of criminals are miserable people who have failed even at being criminals. Only a tiny number of criminals actually become rich, and they are found mostly in politics and other types of organized crime. By and large, crime does not pay.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“Fools heap praise and sympathy upon evil men and evil women.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“Fools will not be convinced.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“‘Forever and always’ are words found within every good dream.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“Forget about your worst failures and concentrate on your best efforts.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“How very little even the learned and wise know.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“Humans are the ultimate Swiss army knives of the animal kingdom.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“I am as God made me, as is every being and thing in Creation. Some stray from the straightway and end up on crooked paths, and I must take care that I not do so similarly.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“I am contemplating starting The Center for the Study of Things that Don’t Matter . . . I just need a large cash grant from the federal government.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“I am too busy being odd to worry about getting even.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“If I were being chased in the forest by a big ferocious animal that wanted to eat me, how could I not take that as a kind of compliment?” -David Hugh Beaumont

“If water had a flavor, what color would it sound like?” -David Hugh Beaumont

“If we make places for the good in our world and strive to keep them so, there will be less room for the bad in our world.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“If you are poor, never allow the rich to push you into a hole and tell you that is where you will live your life. If they try, stand up to your full height, and knock the rich off their pedestal.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“If you spend an hour watching television or otherwise entertaining yourself, at the end of the hour you have nothing, except maybe something to talk about with your friends who have also used an hour doing something similar. If you spend an hour writing a poem or building a chair or helping a child to understand reading and math, at the end of the hour you will have something of value and something to talk about with your friends who might also find that they want to do something similar - inspired by you.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“If you want to, you can.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“If you would like to change things in your life that seem too big to change all at once, could you be happy changing them a little at a time?” -David Hugh Beaumont

“In order to bounce back after a fall, it helps to be somewhat elastic.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“In the beginning, all was darkness. Then came the light, and it has been increasing ever since.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“Inner peace, outer chaos . . . all is well!” -David Hugh Beaumont

“Is it better to have a bee in one’s bonnet than bats in one’s belfry?” -David Hugh Beaumont

“It is not enough for me to just do the things that maintain my life; I must do the things that improve my life.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“It is often little more than luck in circumstances that makes the difference between a rich man and a poor man, a peasant and a nobleman, a happy person and a sad person, but people are strangely unaware of this, and suppose it is entirely due to some superiority or inferiority of the intellect or physique or other attribute that accounts for the differences among persons.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“Let’s build a world in which things work for people, rather than people working for things.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“Let’s not merely dream of a better life and a better world . . . let’s start creating the good with our thoughts and words and deeds.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“May you fear no outer darkness, and know no lack of inner light.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“Nobody who is homeless or poor wants to be that way. We could give to them the help that would allow them to stand up on their own two feet and provide for themselves, but instead we give them only the kind of help that will keep them from dying. We are not good human beings, are we?” -David Hugh Beaumont

“One cannot argue with ignorance.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“One person’s danger is another person’s excitement.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“One way to become famous, or at least recorded in history, is to place everything you say in quotation marks. Eventually people who collect quotations will find what you have said and add it to their collections, and then you will be all set.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“People have advised me not to talk to crazy people, so now I only talk to myself.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“People will attack your character or falsely accuse you of wrongdoing, not because you are at fault, but because they are trying to gain control of you.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“Predict doom, and people flock to you and repeat your predictions everywhere to everyone. Predict joy, and you may not have even a single person who will acknowledge it. Thus we see the popularity of prophets of doom and the obscurity of prophets of everything otherwise.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“Science went for a walk one fine day, hiked up a hillside, reached the top, and found . . . religion.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“Some people are so silly that when they see an imperfection in another person, and then gloatingly point it out to everyone, they think they have proven their own worthiness.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“Someday I hope to be rich enough to buy my way out of poverty.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“Sometimes I think that I am a dog that thinks it is human . . . look, a squeaky toy!” -David Hugh Beaumont

“Strangers greeting one another is so rare in many places now days that if you make eye contact and say, ‘Hello,’ to a stranger as you walk past each other on a sidewalk, you might be mistaken by that stranger as being either a devil or an angel.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“Studies and polls prove nothing and are always invalid; only rightly done scientific research has a chance of proving anything or of being valid.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“Success belongs to the doers.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“The challenges of life never cease, but our ability to face them gets better as time goes by.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“The humorous remains a bone of contention, for while some find its name to be funny, others do not.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“The key to understanding some people is to think of parrots, animals that simply repeat words that they do not actually know the meanings of, and of monkeys, animals which, without much thought, mimic the behaviors of others.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“The prettiest flowers take root in the lowly dirt.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“The things that get done are the things that get started.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“The world has no time for an idler. An idler is a person who wastes his or her time in doing nothing of value, and that person will have you doing the same if you spend time with him or her. Avoid the idler as you would the gossiper, the troublemaker, and the mongers of fear or hate or blame.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“There are certain groups that in order to be accepted into, one must do acts or say words that are repulsive, evil, or unwise. If you find yourself unable to join such groups of people, consider yourself fortunate to be of better quality than them, even if you are the only person like yourself that you can find anywhere in life.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“There are two kinds of people in this world: those who make that which is good, and those who break that which is good.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“Thinking ahead is what gets you ahead.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“This is your life . . . make the milliseconds count.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“To live in the past is to live in memory. To live in the future is to live in imagination. To live in the present is to live in the point of creation.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“Together, we are more than the sum of our individual selves.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“We all are angry sometimes, just try not to let yourself get to the point of enjoying it too much.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“We are all on the way to becoming something. If you choose, you can be on your way to becoming something other than only older. It is your choice, and entirely up to you.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“We attract into our lives what we think about.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“We have all made our share of mistakes, and we all have shortcomings and imperfections. In fact, those of us who are doing anything in life continue to make mistakes, and we are aware of our shortcomings and imperfections, every day. In time, we learn to live with all of it and we learn to not dwell on it, because it is the results we achieve from continuing to try after we have made mistakes, and in spite of all else, that is our focus.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“We have not failings, but learnings.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“We speak of a ‘sense of humor,’ but how often do we speak of a ‘sense of beauty,’ a ‘sense of fairness,’ a ‘sense of order,’ a ‘sense of right and wrong,’ or of any other similar senses?” -David Hugh Beaumont

“We succeed by helping others.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“What matters is who you are and what you are becoming, not who you once were.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“When nothing goes right, go left. It sounds flippant, but it means when nothing goes right, go another direction.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“Whenever I meet someone, I try to visualize that person with makeup and a colorful wig and funny clothes . . . and if they look or act like they could make a good clown, they have passed ‘The Clown Test.’ In time, I might apply other tests to them, like a morality test, and a hard worker test.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“Whether we are twenty or eighty years of age, the time to do anything is now, while we still have the breath of life in us and the beating of our hearts. We each receive only one chance to live a life.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“‘Which way am I?’ asked the dizzy man as he got off the merry-go-round of life.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“While millions work to create what they believe are better works of fiction, a tiny number of people are working to create what will be a better reality.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“Who needs rhetorical questions, except perhaps hypothetical people?” -David Hugh Beaumont

“You are living as if this is all there is.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“You were not meant to fit in, because you are meant to stand out. You are like the yellow flower in the field of green grass; let others be the grass, and let yourself be the flower.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“You will have to fight against dishonesty, laziness, and ignorance always in all places for your whole lifetime, in others and in yourself.” -David Hugh Beaumont

“You win some, you lose some - and then there are the people who always seem to win - how do they do it?” -David Hugh Beaumont

David Hugh Beaumont was born in 1966 in the United States of America. He is a website content creator, a writer, a researcher, and an editor.

Lazy-Kins

12/20/2019

Lazy-Kins

You sit there like a bump on a log
Or green on a frog -
When are you going to do
Something with your life?

You lie there like a bug in rug,
Or a bum with a begging mug -
When are you going to do
Something with your life?

Lazy-kins, you have to become
A little wise, and stop telling lies,
When are you going to do
Something with your life?

by David Hugh Beaumont

David Hugh Beaumont was born in 1966 in the United States of America. He is a website content creator, a writer, a researcher, and an editor.

Find Something to Do

12/20/2019

Find Something to Do

If you are lonely,
     Find something to do.
If you are sad,
     Find something to do.
If you are frightened,
     Find something to do.
If you are angry,
     Find something to do.

Doing something can take you to
     A new place and point of view from which
Loneliness, sadness, fear, anger, and more
    All slowly fade as other feelings settle in:
Fascination, contentment, peacefulness, happiness.
    And thoughts themselves are improved -
All is well, you can say, if you will only now
    Find something to do.

by David Hugh Beaumont

David Hugh Beaumont was born in 1966 in the United States of America. He is a website content creator, a writer, a researcher, and an editor.

Counting Hippopotamuses

12/20/2019

Counting Hippopotamuses

I am a hippopotamus -
And should there be
More than one of us,
We are hippopotamuses,
Though we are hippopotami
Should a grammarian stop by!

One hippopotamus,
Two hippopotamuses,
Any more of us is just a lot of us
Hippopotamuses!
Biologists call a crowd of us
A school, a herd, or a pod of us.

I am a hippopotamus,
We are hippopotamuses
And now our song is through,
As you see, we’re turning blue
Because we have been
Singing . . . without . . . breathing!

by David Hugh Beaumont

David Hugh Beaumont was born in 1966 in the United States of America. He is a website content creator, a writer, a researcher, and an editor.

Bear

12/20/2019

Bear

I met a bear
That was barely there;
It really gave me
Quite a scare!

The barely bear
Was drawn and taut
From having eaten
But naught.

My concern was because
That gaunt bear
Was a hungry bear
So I skedaddled out of there!

by David Hugh Beaumont

David Hugh Beaumont was born in 1966 in the United States of America. He is a website content creator, a writer, a researcher, and an editor.

We're in My Room

12/20/2019

We’re in My Room

Hairy Monster is under my bed,
Dining on dust bunnies and moldy bread;
Occasionally a sock but never a shoe -
Living as all under-bed monsters do.

Shadow Thing lurks in my closet,
Listening and watching me vacuum the rug;
When I’m away it reads my diary -
Just as nosy a thing as a shadow can be.

Spider owns a corner of the ceiling,
Seems to find the spot appealing;
Weaving webs and snaring flies -
Every so often catching my eyes.

In my room I’m not quite alone,
The space is a crowded zone;
Monster, Shadow, Spider, Me -
Who could ask for better company?

by David Hugh Beaumont

David Hugh Beaumont was born in 1966 in the United States of America. He is a website content creator, a writer, a researcher, and an editor.

The Porc-U-Pine

12/20/2019

The Porc-U-Pine

A glance upon the porc-u-pine
Reveals that it is neither
Pork nor pine;
And why the ‘u’ between -
To bind? How novel -
Having ‘u’ for glue!

All around the world are people;
Some scream for ice cream,
Others cry for French fries;
But it’s no good to pine
For a quilly porc-u-pine
That’s not to eat or to climb!

A prickly-textured beast,
A sort of cactus with eyes and teeth;
And for mobility, four feet.
As neither friend nor foe am I,
Only a strange fragile-skinned passerby,
Porc-u-pine, to you I say, “Bye!”

by David Hugh Beaumont

David Hugh Beaumont was born in 1966 in the United States of America. He is a website content creator, a writer, a researcher, and an editor.

Little Brown Bat

12/20/2019

Little Brown Bat

I have a little brown bat,
     It lives inside my hat.
Before I travel anywhere,
     I grab my hat to wear.

Out together we go,
     Even if it should rain or snow.
We never complain about that,
     Me and my little brown hat-bat.

by David Hugh Beaumont

David Hugh Beaumont was born in 1966 in the United States of America. He is a website content creator, a writer, a researcher, and an editor. He does not have a bat, know any bats, or associate with bats.

What to Do with Your Life

12/20/2019

What to Do with Your Life

This is your life, and in every day of it, you should have . . .

. . . a goal to pursue.
. . . a plan to execute.
. . . a project to start.
. . . an idea to work on.
. . . a problem to tackle.
. . . a possibility to explore.
. . . an opportunity to grab.
. . . a decision to make.
. . . a dream to launch.
. . . a love to declare.
. . . a person to seek.
. . . a bit to share.

Do as much as you can every day, because life goes by quickly!

by David Hugh Beaumont

David Hugh Beaumont was born in 1966 in the United States of America. He is a website content creator, a writer, a researcher, and an editor.

Glasswing Butterfly

12/20/2019

Glasswing Butterfly

On gossamer wings I fly -
Flitting and fluttering by;
All but unnoticed by any eye,
I am Nature’s nearly invisible,
And scientifically named,
’Greta oto’ butterfly.

by David Hugh Beaumont

David Hugh Beaumont was born in 1966 in the United States of America. He is a website content creator, a writer, a researcher, and an editor.

The Moon Is Up!

12/20/2019

The Moon Is Up!

What a wonderful night
To be a bat or a raccoon,
To be alive, and to be
Out under the Moon!

by David Hugh Beaumont

David Hugh Beaumont was born in 1966 in the United States of America. He is a website content creator, a writer, a researcher, and an editor.

Little Gray Bonnet & the Nine Gnarled Trolls

12/20/2019

Little Gray Bonnet and the Nine Gnarled Trolls

The day after yesterday, in the tiny impoverished village of Foggyville, lived little Gray Bonnet and her pet Warty Toad and her other pet Noisy Goose. Dark and early in the morning, Noisy Goose ate Warty Toad, which just goes to show you that things do not always go as planned and tragedy can strike at any moment. Just then, there was an thunderous knocking at the door, and little Gray Bonnet answered. Standing at the doorway were nine gnarled trolls, who were selling magic beans to raise money to build new wolf-resistant houses for Messy Hare, Unkempt Hare, and Disheveled Hare, who are also known as ‘The Three Harried Hares.’ Just then, Noisy Goose laid a cast-iron egg, and being in a bad mood because her prune juice was too sour and she had burned her whole-wheat toast and spilled her high-fiber bran porridge all over her clothes, little Gray Bonnet flung the cast-iron egg at the nine gnarled trolls, who did not recognize the immense worth of the metal object in their troubled economy and thought an ordinary rock had been thrown at them. They shouted, “We’ll tell the Ingrown-Toenail Halitosis-Plagued Warlock about you!” and then they bitterly muttered a protest chant as they quickly marched down the uneven bumpy brick road to Never-Not-Ever-Land. And so, with that, everyone lived grumpily ever after.

Thus thankfully ends another dismal tale from the land where it is always dank and overcast and the outlook is forever bleak!

by David Hugh Beaumont

David Hugh Beaumont was born in 1966 in the United States of America. He is a website content creator, a writer, a researcher, and an editor.

Phony Phone

12/19/2019

Phony Phone

I have a phony phone,
     It doesn’t even work.
I carry it around
     And pretend to converse.

I want people
     To think I’m important,
That I have important friends,
     So I got this phony phone.

I talk very loudly,
     And with really big words,
On this phony phone
     That doesn’t even work.

If bystanders ever listened
     They’d figure out real quick
My speaking cadence never matches
     A real human conversation.

by David Hugh Beaumont: “That Doesn’t Even Rhyme”

David Hugh Beaumont was born in 1966 in the United States of America. He is a website content creator, a writer, a researcher, and an editor whose poetry lacks rhyme, rhythm, and reason.

I Am the Whirlwind

12/19/2019

I Am the Whirlwind

I am a flurry of activity.
I am busy as a bee.
I am industrious as a beaver.
I am up before sunrise.

I am always on the move.
I can’t slow myself,
For fear I might lose my balance
And be taken down by gravity.

by David Hugh Beaumont

David Hugh Beaumont was born in 1966 in the United States of America. He is a website content creator, a writer, a researcher, and an editor.

No Kite

12/19/2019

No Kite

I am not quite a kite -
All my flights of fancy
  Are tethered here below . . .

My feet upon the ground,
My ears upon the sound
   Of whistling winds . . .

Yet still with my eyes
I do search the skies
   For kites . . .

by David Hugh Beaumont

David Hugh Beaumont was born in 1966 in the United States of America. He is a website content creator, a writer, a researcher, and an editor.