The Roving Birthday Beast

On the night before your birthday, a little after midnight when you are asleep:

The Roving Birthday Beast will secretly come to your house and bring you good luck for the next year. How do you know if the Roving Birthday Beast has been to your house? He will leave some banana peels in your trash can!

So when you wake up on your birthday morning, look in the trash, and if you find some banana peels then you know he's been there and you'll have really good luck for the next year!

~ Words and artwork by Russ Allison Loar
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Big Or Small?

Big
Or small?

It all
Depends
On the size
Of your friends.





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I Wish For A Fish

I threw a penny
Into the sea
And wished a wish,
A secret for me.

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Happy

Happy is joy
And joy is love.
They all come
From heaven above.



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The Monsters I Make

The monsters I make can be scary,
Scary and hairy all day.
I give them great big bags of candy
So they’ll scare all my bad dreams away.

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Kite Flyer

I cannot see the man in the moon
Though I've tried with all my might
So I made my own man in the moon
And put him on my kite!

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Modern Art Fish

This is a modern art fish,
A line and a shape or two.
If it looked more like a fish
Would it be modern to you?

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Apprehensive

Apprehensive is a big word to say
My brain does not want me to go this way.

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Too Fast!

If you go too fast, everything gets blurry!


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Kitty Wants To Fly

Kitty wants to catch a bird.
I bet you don't know why!
Kitty wants the little bird
To teach him how to fly.

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The Elephant

Front or back,
Right or left,
Up or down,
Happy or sad,
Smart or stupid,
Young or old,
Nobody sees the same elephant.

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Flatware

Fork and spoon,
Spoon and Knife,
I dreamed my flatware
Came to life!


~ Poem and artwork by Russ Allison Loar
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Chester

Chester is a happy dog.
He likes to eat submarine sandwiches.





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Bearly

My teddy bear
Is barely there,
That’s cause
He tiptoes
Everywhere.

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Trunked!

            Ye Gads! I've got a trunk!

Sometimes we don't know
what we really look like
until we look in the mirror.

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My Heart Is Blue

When I am sad
My heart is blue.
Does this ever
Happen to you?




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All Day Long

A little brown bird
Sang this song:
"I’ve been a little bird
All day long."



~ Poem and artwork by Russ Allison Loar
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Kitty Up A Tree

Kitty up a tree,
Glad it isn’t me,
‘Cause if it were
I’d have no fur,
And speak English.

~ Poem by Russ Allison Loar
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The Book Of Life

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Waiting For The Sun

Sometimes it seems like a little rain cloud is following me around no matter where I go.
But I know the rain will stop and the sun will shine.
All I have to do is wait!

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Home

Home is a place in the heart.

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Beautiful

Everything is beautiful!



~ By Russ Allison Loar
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My Cat

O the quiet life of my cat
Who dreams of simple things,
Like chasing birds,
Eating words
And wearing diamond rings.


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Before I Barely Knew Anything

Before I barely knew anything
I awakened each summer morning
To the cawing of crows
And thought,
How very tall these trees
In which they gather to ruffle their feathers
In the morning breeze,
How tall these trees
And how much these crows must see.

I climbed an orange tree,
So frightened by the height,
So amazed at the sight of neighboring houses
And city streets
And thought about what the crows must see
From the tops of the sycamore trees
And from higher still
As they rise into the sky,
Knowing I would never know
What they know,
Before I barely knew anything.

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Heaven

You can find heaven right where you are.

~ Words and artwork by Russ Allison Loar
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Fishing

Sometimes, it's really good luck when you don't catch a big fish!



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Life On The Moon

My grandfather, Herman Allison,
born in 1885, in Texas, once told me that when he was a schoolboy, a topic for debate was:

"Is the moon inhabited?"


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