Writing The Child.com: 2020

Heaven

You can find heaven right where you are.

~ Words and artwork by Russ Allison Loar
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The hills are alive
With the sound of sheep,
They sleep all day long
But at night they creep,
Into the houses
Of young girls and boys
And put on their clothes
And play with their toys.

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What Is Art?

Cheese from a rat is like soap for a hog,
You can’t write your mother by using a log.
A nose is indifferent to all that is art,
The opera’s a good place to rip loose a fart.

~ Words and rat by Russ Allison Loar
~ Painting by Sam Francis at the Huntington Library & Gardens
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Terrible Teapot Song

I'm a little teapot
Short and stout,
Kick me in the rear
And step on my snout.

I'm a little teapot
Fat and wide,
Take me to the slaughterhouse
And cut off my hide!

~ Words and artwork by Russ Allison Loar
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What A Little Bird Told Me

Talk is cheep!

~ Words and artwork by Russ Allison Loar
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Under The Sea

Strange things happen under the sea!
Not to you,
Not to me.
Isn't it grand
To live on land!

~ Words and artwork by Russ Allison Loar
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Children Have A Chance

Children have a chance
To change what their parents have done,
To set aside the old ways,
To walk in the light of the sun.

~ Poem and artwork by Russ Allison Loar
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Home On The Range

Home On The Range
On The Horse

~ Words and artwork by Russ Allison Loar
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No Surprises

I like to go shopping
In the deep blue sea,
Where no one is surprised
By creatures like me.

~ Words and artwork by Russ Allison Loar
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What Is this?

This is a mother whale,
Swimming in the ocean
With her baby,
Coming up for air.

She is an abstract whale,
Swimming in an abstract ocean
With her abstract baby,
Coming up for some abstract air.

The abstract sun is shining
And the abstract water is warm.

The mother and her baby are happy.
They don't mind being abstract
Because they are really alive somewhere.

~ Words and artwork by Russ Allison Loar
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Imagine

If you are not living the life you imagined,
imagine the life you are living.

~ Words and artwork by Russ Allison Loar
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Stoopid

Just cause I'm stoopid don't mean I ain't got no brains!

~ Words and artwork by Russ Allison Loar
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Nice Kitty ?

Some cats are nice,
Some cats are mean,
Some are in-between.

~ Words and artwork by Russ Allison Loar
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Not Me!

Some people see a tree
And want to count the leaves.
Not me!

~ Words and artwork by Russ Allison Loar
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Tickly

This is a tickly.
He loves to tickle.
He's sneaking up on you.
Watch out!

~ Words and artwork by Russ Allison Loar
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A Windy Day

It was a windy day.
My balloons all flew away.
But I did not care.
They looked lovely in the air.

~ Words and artwork by Russ Allison Loar
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Treevolution

If trees could talk,
What would they say?
If trees could walk,
Would they run away?

~ Words and artwork by Russ Allison Loar
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Smile!

Smile for the camera,
Smile for the day,
Smile because you're happy,
I hope you stay that way!

~ Words and artwork by Russ Allison Loar
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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.

~ Words and artwork by Russ Allison Loar
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Q and A

Q: Where was Mr. MacMan when the lights went out?

A: In the dark!

~ Words and artwork by Russ Allison Loar
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Evolution

This beast
is part pickle.
How did this happen?

~ Words and artwork by Russ Allison Loar
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Free Range

Doh-Re-You
And
Doh-Re-Me,
All God's creatures
Want to be free!

~ Words and artwork by Russ Allison Loar
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I Am Confused

You don't
Have to know
What everything means.
Even when you're old
And you like green beans.

~ Words and artwork by Russ Allison Loar
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Ozone Man

Oh no!
Bob forgot
to put on his sunscreen!

~ Words and artwork by Russ Allison Loar
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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.

~ Words and artwork by Russ Allison Loar
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I Wish For A Fish

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

~ Words and artwork by Russ Allison Loar
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Happy

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

~ Words and artwork by Russ Allison Loar
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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.

~ Words and artwork by Russ Allison Loar
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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!

~ Words and artwork by Russ Allison Loar
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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?

~ Words and artwork by Russ Allison Loar
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Apprehensive

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

~ Words and artwork by Russ Allison Loar
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Too Fast!

If you go too fast, everything gets blurry!

~ Words and artwork by Russ Allison Loar
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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.

~ Words and artwork by Russ Allison Loar
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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

Bearly

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

Trunked!

Ye Gads! I've got a trunk!

My Heart Is Blue

All Day Long

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.

The Book Of Life

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!

~ Words and artwork by Russ Allison Loar
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Home

Beautiful

My Cat

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

~ Words and artwork by Russ Allison Loar
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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.

~ Poem and artwork by Russ Allison Loar
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Fishing

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?"

~ Words and artwork by Russ Allison Loar
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