Life Poems

By Dean Reding

Did you wonder why the Mars Rover did not work for a while. Find the answer here.

What did they throw off of the Tallahatchie Bridge? Find out here.

What was high school like in the early sixties?

A host of other poems about life and everything encountered from ants to whales.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dean Reding
• Release date: Aug 2, 2011
• ISBN: 9780982913376

Dean Reding

Dean is a native of Denton, Texas, now living in East Texas. He worked thirty years for an oil company, traveling in Central and South America, Africa, and Europe. He retired in 2002 and began writing novels, poetry, and non fiction. You can reach him at [e-mail]

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LIFE POEMS

by

Dean Reding

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Life Poems

Copyright © 2011 by Dean Reding

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LIFE POEMS

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Insomnia

King

My BB Gun

A Two-Headed Dog

The Christmas Party

The Tooth Ache

A Day of Rest

The Dinner Party

Christmas Decorations

Taxes

The Cruise

Voting Day

A Trip to the Dentist

The Discount Store

The Missing Icon

Mars Rover

The Bank Account

Dad

The Oil Change

State Vehicle Inspection

On Kentucky

A Trip to the Eye Doctor

A Day Helping Folks

Help!

Butcher Knife

Moving Day

Ready for Spring

Dad Had Pigs

The Movie

The Pig

iMac

Chicken

Bird Houses

Mom Came to School

It Doesn’t Feel Like a Book

Morning

The Ticket

Downsizing

Jury Duty

Penicillin

Hiding

Forgetting

Up or Down

Gone Fishing

I Am a Computer

A Moment Missed

Young to Old

Another Ale, Wench

The Kidnapping

Ants

Lawyers

High School Days

Quirt Abuse

Francis

Tim’s Crush

Whales

Light

The Offense

Diseased

Health Stores

Saturday

When Will You Work

Two Women Walking

A Winter Day

Frustrated

Groundhog Day

Tornado

Mean Dean

Janet

The first poem is for those who cannot sleep or have difficulty sleeping. I wrote this one night when I could not sleep and went to visit our son watching TV in the living room.

Insomnia

The days are short and the nights are long

My mind races and sleep seems wrong.

I read a chapter of a novel before I retired

I cannot sleep because I’m just not tired.

I toss and turn this way and that,

I get up to find J.W. so we can chat.

He said, I’ll buy a scary movie, Hee, Hee, Hee.

I replied, If you do you will not watch it with me.

He said, I’ll not get out of your chair.

I lay on the couch, since I didn’t care.

We talked for an hour and I went back to bed,

I tried to sleep but couldn’t, so I got up instead.

Now, J.W. left and went to bed in his room,

I just sat in my chair in a state of gloom.

I turned on my laptop and began to write,

Before long, the darkness turned to light.

The night went by and I never slept,

However a poem from within