These 100 poems are about personal matters and life matters and each were written from the heart and took barely 5-10 minutes to compose. I hope they really do make you "Think, Laugh and Cry," and, thank you for your kind donations to both Diabetes and Cancer Research who will receive a pound for every book sold.

These 100 poems are about personal matters and life matters and each were written from the heart and took barely 5-10 minutes to compose. I hope they really do make you ';Think, Laugh and Cry.

This is the follow-up book to the original published on 5th September 2017, and, again, I hope they really do make you “Think, Laugh and Cry”, and thank you for your kind donations to both Diabetes and Dementia charities who will receive a pound for every book sold.

You will find some of these Poems Humorous, some Serious, and some full of imagination. You will laugh, cry, say I've been their and done that. Some of the poems are silly, some are from real life! they are about love, life, animals, events, Family, all sorts of assorted Poems. mostly Rhyming yet some are not. Some of These Poems are not for young children, so please read and decide which ones you want your kids to read!

The inspiration for writing poetry came years ago when I was in high school but I never seriously did anything about it until I started working in the school system. Just watching the children sometimes gave me ideas and brought a poem to mind. I guess being the mother of three, I never took the time to write anything down until I had an empty nest. Even then, I didn't get serious about writing a book until I started working at Sand Creek Elementary School five years ago. While helping third and fourth graders write simple poems. I became obsessed in writing myself. I would sometimes stay up late and write four or five poems in an evening. Some good and some not so good. One of the first poems I wrote was called Children Lost. I was inspired to write it after seeing so many children who seem to need attention they didn't get at home. Just a few kind words or praise from a teacher or an assistant was like giving them a new toy. To see their smiles when you complemented them on something done well just stole my heart. Life events would come to mind like the time my best friend and I went fishing and she was so eager to catch the big one that in her excitement to reel it in she fell and sat on it. That was the inspiration for Fishing with My Friend. Just thinking about my grandchildren would sometimes trigger a new poem. With nine grandchildren ranging in age from four to seventeen you never know what they will say or do. Whatever the reason, here are the results.

POEMS TO MAKE YOU LAUGH AND THINK is a two part collection of adult and children's poetry, including lyrics to songs of Robert Brookstone. This book is for the most part comical, but there are also serious, reflective works, including three intriguing theories by Mr. Brookstone in poetic form regarding our Moon, the nature of color, and the speed of light (EVOLUTIONARY MOON, COLORFUL REFLECTIONS, and C SQUARED - found in the Book Excerpt). This work employs an entertaining rhythmical, rhyming style; and the poems are incisively funny. It is a book that will have you both laughing, as well as thinking, and makes for a most enjoyable and educational read.

Comedian Gabbie Hanna brings levity to the twists and turns of modern adulthood in this exhilarating debut collection of illustrated poetry. In poems ranging from the singsong rhythms of children’s verses to a sophisticated confessional style, Gabbie explores what it means to feel like a kid and an adult all at once, revealing her own longings, obsessions, and insecurities along the way. Adultolescence announces the arrival of a brilliant new voice with a magical ability to connect through alienation, cut to the profound with internet slang, and detonate wickedly funny jokes between moments of existential dread. You’ll turn to the last page because you get her, and you’ll return to the first because she gets you.

A revelatory memoir about a young woman whose life was stolen when she was kidnapped in 1991 and remained an object of captivity for 18 years.

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