I seem to have too much time on my hands today, and so am posting all sorts of silly things. My bride has suggested (recognising my inability to write anything serious or sensible) that I work on a book of silly poems for kids. I’ve done a few little things that might one day be edited into a form suitable for the $2 Christmas gift shop, and here’s another.

It actually comes from a challenge from The Carrot Ranch requiring 99 words only (you need to include the title).

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A Moose let Loose in a China Shop

A moose let loose in a china shop

Crashing, smashing glass, can’t  stop

To smell the roses, taste the air

No thought that someone ought to care

Or feel the fear or hear the cries

Of little children, open eyes

That see the mayhem, think the worst

This moose is crazy, maybe cursed

With some disease or primal fears

Words in his head that no-one hears

With no regrets, ejects a roar

Thrashing, dashing out the door

A waft of freedom in his nose

Where he’s headed no one knows