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From cigarette girls and bell hops

The couples came to be

Gullible Fred, Loose-lips Barney

Married Wilma and friend Betty

Arnold the paperboy, the Buffalo Lodge

Bowling and all the other hodge-podge

Flintstones and Rubbles adventures never end

What great stories of neighbors and best friends

Hoppy came along, first mistaken for a mouse

By Dino and Fred, when he first got to the house

Mishaps and laughter wrapped into every scene

Sure gave you a sense of what friendship really means

Pebbles and all her charms, and Bam-Bam too

Who can forget the Great Gazoo?

Working in the quarry was what Fred would do

At the end of each day he would "Yabba-Dabba-Doo!"

Wilma would cook a big rack of ribs

Fred could come home and at the table he'd sit

Then he and Barney would head to the lodge or the lanes

Bedrock was a place where friends knew all your names

It would be so much fun if we could even pretend

then take my grandchildren to a time back when

We would sit Saturday morning and watch cartoons

Then head off to do chores with a "Yabba-Dabba-Doo!"

little boy blue come blow your horn

Humpty Dumpty is scattered and torn

Mary has lost her lamb at school

Jack n Jill do not know what to do

Children no longer are reading these rhymes

We are living in some very sad times

Mary Mary with silver bells

And the farmer in the dell

Jack jumping the candlestick

How many peppers did Peter pick

Words that no longer get read at school

We are living in a very sad world

The old woman in the shoe

What did the Ugly Duckling do

Hey Diddle Diddle lost his fiddle

Jack is quick, yet so nimble

Mother Goose is unknown to a child

We are living in a world without much style

So London Bridge may be falling down

The mulberry bush we may go around

Duck duck goose will not be heard

Simon says now is just a word

Such a loss of reading so much undone

We are living in a world without much fun

"Little King Pippin", "Needles and Pins"

"Hickety Pickety my Black Hen"

"Georgie Porgie" and "Jack Sprat"

Little miss Muffet on a tuffet she sat

So many rhymes we soon will loose

Where in our world is Mother Goose?

If I were a fly on the wall, oh my

The things I'd see as I buzz by

Things I would hear from your lips as well

Oh if I were a fly, the things I could tell

Do you think that Betty knows about Bill

The cheating he does while she's at the grill

Working over heat as he heats up others' beds

when he should be heating up her bed instead

What about Mary and that thing with Steve

do you think that they have told Louise?

She's planning her wedding with him as I fly

If I could tell her she'd find another guy

the things that I see, the things that I hear

as I buzz overhead and you swat me from there

you'd cry if you knew what I know from here

you'd loose many friends if the stories they'd share

people are strange when no one is around

all they hear is that buzzing sound

they speak of their mind, they speak of the truth

they forget their morals, manners and couth

If I were a fly on the wall, oh my

I could write a book of the stories they'd tell

bestseller it'd be, people would relate so well

If I were a fly on the wall, oh my,

If I were a fly, but wait, oh no! SWAT! I die.

Napkin in lap

grace has been said

workday is done

family needs to be fed

slave over stove

after all day on her feet

serving the dish

she's prepared them to eat

child looks up

with a grin on his face

eyeing his food

like at some fast food place

eyes open wide

he puts his food to his tongue

speaks not a word

till his dinner is done

then with a smile

asks his mom what was that

she answers chinese

he states, "ugh! you fed me a cat"

silly, but inspired by a true story. Was in a chinese restaurant recently where a young boy asked his mom if it was true that they were eating cat. I actually enjoy Chinese cuisine and this poem is in no way to say that I believe they serve cat, it was the "shock me" approach, hope you have fun with it

Must come to an end,

Only the good die young...

Others go around the bend

While others bite their tongue...

Some may say "Cheap as Chips"

others, a dime a dozen,

Some say, smooth as silk

Others, smooth as cotton...

so stop beating around the bush

and just cut to the chase

It's just par for the course

We're not all on the same page...

When the rubber hits the road

What goes up must come down

And if that doesn't just take the cake

What goes around, comes around!

We celebrate the Golden Anniversary
Look forward to the Golden Years
Think back on the Golden Oldies
Wash away all our fears.
We celebrate the Gold trophy
Cheering on each one they try
Teaching our children the Golden rule
Things that money and gold can't buy.

You hear about the Golden Goose
Does it lay a Golden Egg
Golden needles in the song
Think Roy Clark had it pegged
Silence they say is Golden
or is that truly really so?
Also heard it said
Worth ones weight in Gold.

Gold rush, Gold coins,
Gold in any form
Golden flake, Golden City
Now don't be alarmed
One little word, in this pot of Gold
But the real treasure you will see
Is the Golden truth that you will find
In every Golden opportunity.

(original below: Revised above)

We celebrate the Golden Anniversary
Look forward to the Golden Years
Think back on the Golden Oldies
Some of which bring on tears.
We celebrate the Gold trophy
Cheering on each one will try
Teaching our children the Golden rule
Things that money and gold can't buy.

You hear about the Golden Goose
Does it lay a Golden Egg
Golden needles in the song
Think Roy had it pegged
Silence is Golden
or is that truly really so?
Also heard it said
Worth ones weight in Gold.

Gold rush, Gold coins,
Gold in any form
Golden flake, Golden City
Now don't be alarmed
One little word, in this pot of Gold
But the real treasure you will see
Is the Golden truth you you will find
In every Golden opportunity.

Dashing through the air
Was Santa and his sleigh
All at once not very clear
A ship, radar did display
Santa cracked his whip again
Then to his surprise
The ship fell down on top of him
Right out of the clear night sky

Alien ship, sleigh got hit
Santa now was in dismay
What a crash, they came down
On top of Santa's sleigh
Alien ship, what a trip
What was Santa to do now
His sleigh was smashed
Accident report to file
Needs to deliver the toys somehow

Alien ship, what a trip
Santa now knew what to do
Ask the aliens to take him now
and his red sack too
Alien ship, Santa's sleigh
What a mess on Christmas eve
Toys were delivered, all was well
In aliens, we all now do believe.

Used Christmas song "Jingle Bells" for this contest.-Christmas Song re-write hosted by Paulbrot based on the picture for a prompt