Light tan parchment paper background with wheat grain texture

A Toy

2020-08-27

№ 7

Raise a ruckus
raise the roof
raise a daughter
on the hoof

raise tomatoes
raise a barn
keep the daughter
safe from harm

dough still rising
jesus risen
keep the daughter
far from prison

raise the anchor
raise the sails
head for home when
all else fails

get a raise or
get a rise
look your daughter
in the eyes

pluck a rose
raise the dead
poem's over
time for bed