Do you enjoy a surprise in a story? One that sneaks up on you when you least expect it? Well I do too. There are poems that try to do that here. Were you enchanted by the nursery rhymes that were read to you as a child? I was. My mother loved to read. She loved to read to me. I was dyslexic back before it was fashionable and before teachers could diagnose it in students. But poetry was always a big thing with me. What is it about poetry that tickles the psyche and makes us receptive to new ideas and things? Poetry hopes for response.

Some may make you cry laughing. Some will do the same without the laughter. Some will say, "I have a cat like that." Most all cats are like that.