
So a few years back I was having a casual conversation with someone and he was talking about fun poems (not classic poetry!!!!) and said, “I’ll give you a first line and challenge you to write a poem about it.” Well, I did (always ready to take on a writing challenge) and I found it the other day, so I thought I’d share it. (The poem is written for children.)
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I’ve been thinking lots ‘bout thinking
All those thoughts go round and round
Tickling all my thinking brain cells
Till the just-right thought is found.
I think about a silvery sky
Pink flowers, blue trees below.
I think about a purple sun.
And rainbow-colored snow.
I think about a great back yard
With a swing that swings to Boston.
And a ferris wheel that’s up so high
You can see clear south to Austin.
And I think about a kitchen,
With a fridge that’s quite a dream.
It changes all the vegetable
To chocolate nut ice cream.
I think about a shiny car
That drives through sea and air.
Before you leave the driveway,
You are already there.
I think about the painting
Of a zebra in a zoo
Think of all the crazy stripes
In many varied hues.
Some say that all my thinking
Is as silly as can be.
But then I think ‘bout serious things
Like who made bugs and bees.
I think about creation
How God made trees and plants
The hopping, little bunnies
And the always scurrying ants.
And I think about God’s love for me.
He sent His only Son and then …
Christ come to earth for me and you.
It’s more than I can comprehend.
Sometimes I think ‘ bout heaven
Where Christ is waiting for His own
A place of always happiness
Our forever home.
So I’ll just keep on thinking.
Because thinking’s lots of fun.
So I’ll think and think some more
‘Til all my thinkings’ done.