Oh sad yellow sock why are you so chewed?

Your owner has one foot quite cold and nude

Please answer this question, I mean not to be rude

But phrase the reply in language un-crude.

A note to my teachers :

I don't mean to mock...

But along with my homework,

the dog ate my sock !

OT...on the way from here to there, the tally as of May 13......

Socks = 4

Bra = 1

(okay, a runaway sock I can understand.....but your bra ?! )

Here's a stray I named Huck Finn,

So close to the storm sewer, it's sure to wash in.

The next time it rains

Some cats and some dogs,

Huck will be on the river afloat with the logs!

Sock #5

All the clovers around it

and not one was lucky,

This decorative sock

ended up pretty yucky.

Sock #6

Where do all these socks come from?!

With apologies to Robert Graves' The Travelers Curse:

May they stumble, stage by stage,

On an endless pilgrimage,

Dawn to dusk, mile after mile,

At each and every step a stile.

At each and every step withal,

May a sock from their foot fall

With each and every sock that falls

May another sock be called

To break away, run fast and free

To find new friends in company

Of liberated socks now bold

To find new life upon the wold.

(Fifty years ago, I went to a lecture that included a demonstration of the memorization technique called 'fading,' where one reads an item over and over, each time with more and more elements of the text missing, until the last iteration is a blank page, and you 'read' it because your brain has been trained to fill in the missing spots. Anyway, The Travelers Curse is the poem that was used for the demonstration - as you can see, fading is a very effective memorization tool!)

Donnamarie.....I find these lost 'soles' while I am on my daily walks about our town ! It always strikes me funny that only one sock is lost. Never a pair. There had to be a pair to start and at some point one escaped ! It really amuses me to document these, as you can see :0)

Love that poem too !

May 27, 2022

This sock met a lawn mower

and was torn right in two....

Nothing can mend this,

Not even super glue !

Sock #7 ....part 1 and part 2

True!!