Flashback Friday Poetry: A Toy’s Lament

locked away in my Plastic Cage
until my release by Giants
as years go by others are Freed
and this begins to fuel my rage
i decide to be defiant
i learn to except my own greed

i force my way down the Shelf
to open the Cardboard Prison
all my efforts are in vain
i try to recover myself
then i am found by a person
it returns me to my great pain

Tuesday Poetry: The Dancers are Proud

running around
the dancers are proud
entertaining the crowd
the dancers are proud

the dancers are free
like birds in the air
jumping around
with nothing to fear

they dance with the radiance
of an illuminating star
they dance for them near
they dance for them far

the smiles on their faces
as they jump in the air
bring warmth to the crowd
that watches them there

lifting the spirits
of the entire town
entertaining the crowd
the dancers are proud