Let us go with a child into his world of wonder. Go with a child before he has been immersed in the adult world of cell phones and computers. For a child delights in seeing other living things, the little baby animals and their mothers and fathers, all birds and bugs and beasts. He loves them and his imagination soars as he watches them and attributes to them his own thoughts. For they surely must think as he thinks, feel as he feels, and talk as he talks. They are special beings, alive and sharing life with him.

Let us go with a child into his world.

These verses will allow us to leave, for a few moments, our world of conflict and chaos and enter into a Realm of ridiculous wry wit, and fun.

They are certain to elicit some smiles, a few chuckles, and maybe a belly laugh or two.

Some of them were published, years ago, on the Postscripts Page of The Saturday Evening Post; some of them in the Pepper and Salt section of The Wall Street Journal; and some of them, including a contest winning limerick, in Arizona, the weekly magazine section of The Arizona Republic: and one in McCall's.

The author has also published more serious...