Mastodawn

Grown-up, or: Don’t say

Hush now, grown-up, don't despair,
God's gonna hear your every prayer.

And if your troubles linger still,
God's gonna work His hidden will.

And if your doubts begin to chafe,
God's gonna keep your spirit safe.

And if the years seem long and late,
God's gonna smile, "Just trust and wait."

And if your road stays hard to tread,
God's got a blessing yet ahead.

And if the wicked win this day,
God's gonna have the final say.

And if these dark and mortal years cease,
God's gonna grant you lasting peace.

And if that peace still seems delayed,
God's got more promises He's made.

W3 poetry prompt

For this week’s W3 prompt, Deanna encourages us to write a poem inspired by a nursery rhyme. We can use a nursery rhyme character, borrow a line from a nursery rhyme, or let a nursery rhyme lead us to a completely new poem.

Let’s write poetry together!

When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone – it’s possible. But creatively, it’s more like painting: you can’t just use the same colours in every painting. It’s just not an option. You can’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.

–Ben Harper (b. 1969)

Would you like to create poetry with me and have a completed poem of yours featured here at the Skeptic’s Kaddish? I am very excited to have launched the ‘Poetry Partners’ initiative and am looking forward to meeting and creating with you… Check it out!

#Doubt #Faith #God #Irony #Mortality #MotherGoose #Poem #Poetry #Promises #Skepticism #W3

Alaska Headline Living May 1

Jack be nimble, Jack be wise ...
Memaw read the roads, No surprise!
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#NationalMotherGooseDay #mothergoose #parkshighway #sewardhighway #sterlinghighway #GlennHighway #knikgoosebayrd #memawscommute #Alaska #traffic #weather #travel

Alecia Batson (she/her)Apr 6

At one of my #Easter singing gigs, the message used the humble #egg as a symbolic #metaphor. Part of the discourse made reference to a shattering egg and I thought immediately of Humpty Dumpty.

Then I began to wonder why #HumptyDumpty became an anthropomorphic egg when the #MotherGoose nursery rhyme doesn’t mention calcium carbonate ovoids at all. 🤔

And now I will always associate a children’s poem and #entropy and #horses and #men failing to assemble a #puzzle with a Christian festival day. 🥚

charring auh Dec 25

#MotherGoose is a character that originated in children's fiction, as the imaginary author of a collection of French fairy tales and later of English nursery rhymes.[1] She also appeared in a song,

jaja Nov 23, 2025

"There Was An Old Woman Who Lived In a Shoe"
Teableau for 11/22/25

...With so many children,
She didn't know what to do.
Once all of those kids Finally moved away,
She got a rat terrier
And enjoyed every day.

#Tea #NurseryRhymes #Teableau #TeaCozy #TeaCosy #BlackTea #Handmade #Sewing #VintageChina #Miniatures #Figurines #Twinings #Gingerbread #Autumn #Fall #Embroidery #MotherGoose

Rozzychan Oct 25, 2025

Monday's child is fair of face.
Tuesday's child is full of grace.
Wednesday's child is full of woe.
Thursday's child has far to go.
Friday's child is loving and giving.
Saturday's child works hard for a living.
And the child that was born on the Sabbath day is bonnie and blithe and good and gay.

#mothergoose #childrenspoems

Thinking of Wednesday Adams.