Writing The Child.com: 2023

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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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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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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Chester

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

~ Words and artwork by Russ Allison Loar
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Bearly

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

~ Words and artwork by Russ Allison Loar
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Evolution

~ by Russ Allison Loar
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Higher Learning

~ A painting on Pitzer College wall

~ Photo by Russ Allison Loar
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Spuding

How can you tell how fast your potato is going?

Check the Spudometer!

~ Cut and paste by Russ Allison Loar
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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.

~ Words and artwork by Russ Allison Loar
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My Heart Is Blue

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

~ Words 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
~ Artwork by Cheryl & Russ Loar
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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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The Book Of Life

~ Words and artwork by Russ Allison Loar
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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!

~ Words and artwork by Russ Allison Loar
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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?"

He lived long enough to see Neil Armstrong stand on the moon.

~ Words and artwork by Russ Allison Loar
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Home

Home is a place in the heart.

~ Words and artwork by Russ Allison Loar
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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.

~ 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

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

~ Words and artwork by Russ Allison Loar
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All The King’s Horses

Where are those children
Who wanted to play?
Where are their toys,
Have they put them away?

Where is my son,
Has he grown up and gone?
My little daughter,
A child of her own?

All the king’s horses
And all the king’s men
Cannot put childhood
Together again.

~ By Russ Allison Loar
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My Kitty Has A Dishrag

My kitty has a dishrag,
It’s pink and rough and wet,
She scrubs herself all over
When she comes home from the vet.

~ Poem and artwork by Russ Allison Loar
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Sheeps

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.

~ Words and artwork by Russ Allison Loar
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Heaven

You can find heaven right where you are.

~ Words and artwork by Russ Allison Loar
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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

Under The Sea

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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Imagine

Home On The Range

No Surprises

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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Stoopid

Dirt Devil

He's smelly and mean,

You can't get him clean,

He hides in secret places

That you've never seen.