The Wrecker's Ball

The wrecker's ball
Dynamite
The building's gone
No more in sight

Fond memories
Of that grand hotel
It wasn't updated
The rooms didn't sell

A new hoteel
That has two towers
A large casino
And rooms large showers

A tear down home
Because it's too small
They'll build a big home
That's three stories tall

The family moved out
Because they retired
A much larger home
New owners desired

What's coming now
The land was sold
It once was a farm
So I've been told

In with the new
Out with the old
They'll do what they want
Once the property's sold

By, Randee Saber 1/2/07

Anton - the dining room manager

Anton, Dining Room Assistant Manager

Holland American (Eurodam) Cruise July 2012

Surrounded by thousands

Co-workers and guests
The job you’re assigned
You don’t get much rest

These may not be

The best years of your life
Away from your children
Away from your wife

I’m so glad I met you

You brightened each day
But the cruise has ended
And I cannot stay

By, Randee Saber 7/18/2012

Piano Lady

Piano Lady – Diane Fast

Holland American (Eurodam) Cruise July, 2012

You’ve met a lot of passengers

From your piano seat
While we were on our cruise
Each evening we would meet

You sang and played the night away

And never took a break                                                                             
A repertoire of songs you know
Requests the guests would make

Thanks for entertaining me

You sing and play so well
I really liked your lounge act best
When you sang that song by Adele

By, Randee Saber  7/18/2012

I'm a baseball player

I’m a baseball player – Roger Clemens
(formerly played for the Houston Astros)

I’m a baseball player

And I didn’t cheat
I never took steroids
Though I’m hard to beat
                                                                 
After two lengthy trials
The jury has said
That I wasn’t guilty
That’s how I had pled

They said I bulked up
While playing my sport
But not from steroids
My lawyer said in court

After two separate trials
Much money was spent
For my attorney
And the government

Performance enhancing
Some athletes may use
But why this crusade
Did our Congress choose

By, Randee Saber 6/23/2012

William Roger Clemens (born August 4, 1962), nicknamed "The Rocket", is an American former Major League Baseball starting pitcher who played 23 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for four teams, including the Houston Astros. Clemens was one of the most dominant pitchers in major league history, tallying 354 wins, a 3.12 earned run average (ERA), and 4,672 strikeouts, the third-most all time. An 11-time All-Star and two-time World Series champion, he won seven Cy Young Awards during his career, the most of any pitcher in MLB history. Clemens was known for his fierce competitive nature and for his hard-throwing pitching style that he used to intimidate batters.

Clemens was found not guilty on June 18, 2012 for the charges of suspicion of lying to Congress on August 19, 2010 when he testified that he never took performance enhancing durgs.

Book Club

NW Women’s Book Club     
 by, Randee Saber 5/17/2012

I was called a picture bride                 Honolulu, Alan Brennert

And I certainly was deceived

But after I left my husband

Success I had achieved

                                                                           

A job in New York awaited me          Ellis Island, Kate Kerrington

Leaving Ireland   for a while

I returned to a life of poverty

My husband made it all worthwhile

When he came home from the war    Things a brother knows, 

I knew he was depressed                             Dana Reinhardt

Spending all day in his room                                                                                               

Not wanting to get dressed

A miracle had happened                  Friendship Bread, Darien Gee

Because of friendship bread

My life now has some meaning

My days aren’t filled with dread

                                                                                                                                                

When we landed at Ellis Island      The forgotten garden, 

I was a child traveling alone                       Kate Morton

Carrying a little pink suitcase

It’s all that I did own

I moved to Foley Beach               On Foley Beach, Karen White

After my husband died

I bought a little book store

In a town with a lot to hide

After my husband left me              Deep down true, Juliette Fay

I needed to earn some money

Getting a job with my dentist

He soon became my honey

I found a dog that was injured      Finding Jack, Gareth Crocker

In Viet Nam during the war

I nursed him back to health

Jack, my beloved Labrador

Oreo Cookies - celebrating 100 years

Oreo sandwich cookies
You're now 100 years old
You haven't aged a bit
From when you first were sold

I ate you for so many years
And in my milk I'd dunk
If I dropped you in my glass
My milk would still get drunk

Sometimes I'd separate you
Your icing I'd eat first
And after eating many of you
Milk would quench my thirst

I haven't bought you for a while
Because I've gained some weight
But I miss my Oreo cookies
As a snack when I'm up late

We now have several choices
Double stuffed plus different icing
And wafers that are vanilla
Chocolate covered how enticing

Oreo sandwich cookies
I get hungry when I say your name
I think I'll buy a package
I know you'll still taste the same

By, Randee Saber 5/7/12

Sun of a gun

A great invention
The gun became
No gruesome deaths
No one put aflame

No more crucifixions
No swords to be used
To chop off a head
Of someone accused

Bows and arrows
A thing of the past
For hunting prey
Just give them a blast

Their enemies
Lined up in a row
Each shot in the head
In the trenches they go


A bank robbery

Just show your gun

People will listen

They won't try to run

Disgruntled teens

Brought guns to school
Shooting the students
They thought were cool

The guns that you own
You need to hide
Children may find them
And many have died

By, Randee Saber 4/12/12