SKI BIRTHDAY
For her birthday, KIERSTEN’s letters plan to sneak away and ski,
Watch the ENTRIES and the exits to the ski slopes—you will see.
(Let me here INSERT a warning—do not turn away your eyes
For each letter in her name can ski black diamonds if it TRIES.)
Oh, that birthday girl! Her letters now have all begun to STIR.
They won’t SIT still for a minute—they’re an awful lot like her!
They have made IT look so easy; things are worse than I had feared.
All those letters that I love so much have simply disappeared.
Yes, her letters all have gone, but wait, you heard it first from me,
They’ve been spotted on the ski slopes. Look for SKIERS, THEN you’ll see.
Look for SKIERS, TEN or twenty at the lodge when they arrive
And you’ll find that ski bum KIERSTEN celebrating birthday 5.
Annika and the Year of Birthdays
Annika had a birthday and from what I’ve heard folks tell,
The ice cream was delicious and the birthday cake as well.
The party was a big success, leading Annika to say,
This year I’m going to have a birthday each and every day!
The next day she turned 7 and the next day she turned 8,
And all her friends brought presents and came help her celebrate,
And everything was wonderful and all the parties fun.
Already, April Fool’s Day, she was turning 21.
On the 17th of May, she celebrated 67.
By the 30th of June, she turned a hundred and eleven.
The presents all piled up until, no matter how she tried
She couldn’t fit them in her room and had to sleep outside.
And so the parties go each day, and all the fun goes on
And there’ll be fun and games until the birthday year is gone.
And every day a birthday cake, and every cake a bean,
And every day a crown and every crown a king or queen.
So Happy Birthdays, Annika, I hope for next year, you
Can still blow all the candles out, when you’re 372!
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