Poetry Thursday

 It is Thursday and Two Spoiled Cats: Angel Teddy and Sammy have issued a challenge to see how the following picture inspired us.

Here is the picture followed by my meager attempt at poetry

Robert and Cal met once a week for drinks at a bar called the Giant Squid

Laughing over their youths and the adventures together they did.
Cal exclaimed: “Just for one day I would like to be a kid!”

“When we played ball, fished and both sought and did hid.”

 

At the next table sat a genie in human form

Listening to wishes and deciding who to transform.

He told Robert and Cal if they wanted to be kids there was an incarnation he could perform.

And when they said yes clouds sprung around them and produced an electrical storm.

 

When the clouds cleared Robert and Cal discovered they were again young

And from their barstools they were sprung

Then found a group of boys who they quickly became among

Finding an old tree with a tire that they both swung.

 

Then they came upon their favorite playground

With swings, slides, and even an old merry go round.

And while Robert tried to warn Cal his thinking was unsound

Cal got in the climbing bars that around him went round and round.

 

The men should have asked when the incarnation did end.

So, they could prepare for their return from the land of pretend.

And when it stopped Cal could not comprehend

That he was stuck in the bars with one up his rear end.

 

They yelled for help and people saw them and stopped their cars
And one of them was Cal’s wife just have visited her ma.

“You stupid fool,” she yelled at him with a voice like a drunk aged rock star

While men worked to free him with heavy duty crowbar

 

Cal was pulled from his trap hearty and hail.

But went home walking like it would be between his legs if he had a tail.

And all night his wife ranted and rail.

And Cal understood that the ones without bars make the most inescapable jail.