Happiness

Happiness is not a state to arrive
At but a manner of traveling .
Go where you can hear a wooden
Screen door slam shut .
Happiness is to reject and condemn
Prejudice based on race , gender or age or handicap .
Happiness is to travel and see new places ,
But remember to take an open mind .
Happiness is to become a tourist
For a day in your own hometown .
Take a tour and see the sights .
You will be happy that's a fact .
You have found true happiness now .

By Brock

Baseball

B - Ball
A - April
S - Safe
E - Excitement
B - Bat
A - A's The Royals or Twins don't fit in !!!
L - Line up
L - Line drive

Baseball Season brings more than big flies !!!!

By Brock

What

You want me to do what
You want me to hold it
You want me to hit what
You want me to drive it there
You want me to fly over to see yea
You want me to get that high
Let me tell you
You have to get me on a toilet seat
Before I would ever think of doing
All that
Because I have to do something !!!!!!

By Brock

Time Races By

Time takes its toll
Do one thing at a time
And do not hurry .
Give time for your mind .
Think of pleasant thoughts
To fill your mind .
The best eraser in the world
Is a good night sleep
So let time race by
With all of its ups and downs.
Tell yourself you do not have time
For stress at all .

By Brock

Tomorrow

Tomorrow is made up of yesterdays
Never try to ignore tomorrow
When friends offer to help tomorrow
Let them
Never decide to do nothing just
Because you can only do a little today
You will have tomorrow
Not yesterday so think !!!

Coach

A coach believes in TLC
T is for team
L is for Loyalty
C is for Competition
Not tender , loving , care no way !
The coach wants to know
How does his player react
When the pressure is on .
A coach will say
Don't fear anyone
But respect everyone .
A coach will say
Success does not come every time
Failure does not come every time either .
Do right and fear nothing .
Every day you will get better
Or you will get worse
Each day is never the same .
Your coach will not be right over
Your shoulder all the time.
I don't always show that I
Am your coach but I am always on your side .
Make this world a better place by just living .
I will always coach you
Even if I never get paid !!!!!!!!!!!

By Brock

Drink

It has been said that some students
Drink at the fountain of knowledge .
Others drink whatever they want
Before they are 18 .
Some kids limit themselves to gargling
In the morning .
I wish , more kids would learn more knowledge
Than to gargling in the morning ,
Noon and before they go out at night
And try to hide something they have
And it is not any smart knowledge
But just to have one drink
With a friend they say .
Where is the fountain of knowledge
My child over the sink
At 4 in the morning ?

By Brock

Away From Home

When you are away from home
And you hear church bells ,
Think of someone who loves you .
Call before dropping in on family
Or friends even if they say you
Don't have too .
You know , they may not be home .
They may be away from home
Just like you .
When you are home or away from home ,
Be especially courteous and patient
With older people ,
Because someday you will be
One of those older people
Away from home and you might
Hear church bells ringing .

By Brock

Life

Life is short
Eat more pancakes .
Go to a basketball game
And sit by the band .
Buy a red umbrella for it adds
A little color on a rainy day.
Remember the ones who love you .
Regardless of the situation
React with class.
Love someone who does not deserve it .
Be the person who brightens
A room just by entering it .
Life is to short so do these few things
Don't let life pass you by
For my sake don't just sit .

By Brock

Our World

When we dance together
We are in our own separate world
Nothing is wrong everything is right
Time is never measured in an hour glass
When we are together
And whatever we do
We never lose
We only win
When we do things together
Our world is perfect
For the sun always shines
And the stars are so bright
And the moon is full
For us to see everything
In our world above tonight

By Brock

Together

Together anything is possible .
Encourage one another
And build each other up together .
Spend plenty of time together with God .
Let other things go but don't forget God either.
The best exercise of each day is to touch
The floor regularly with your knees
The Coach knows!
You might be called Weave ,
You might be called Slick ,
You might be called Coach ,
But together anything is possible
Especially if we work together that's all .

By Brock

The Road To Happiness

The road to happiness is too
Believe in love at first sight .
Never laugh at anyone's dream .
Accept a breath mint if someone
Offers you one .
If you ever feel terrific ,
Notify your face .
Never apologize for being early
For an appointment .
You all know me !
Discipline your child with a gentle hand .
Rake a pile of leaves in the fall
And jump in it with children .
Never miss an opportunity
To sleep on a screen-in porch
With grandma .
Never miss an opportunity to have
Someone of any age to rub your back .
Never be the first to break a family tradition .
Drive as you wish your kids
Would never speed or drive recklessly
With children in the car .
Don't judge people by their relatives .
The road to happiness starts one day at a time
And it starts today with the next stop sign !!!!!!!

Everyone

Everyone is someone
Remember that everyone you meet
Is afraid of something ,
Loves something
And has lost something
At some point a person will miss
You and love you and say
I will love you every day
That ends with the letter Y
Everyone should know
That love and balance are the two most
Important words in the world
Everyone knows nothing is stronger
Than tenderness
Everyone knows that life is not measured by
The breaths we take but by the moments
That takes our breath away
Everyone knows that everyone counts

By Brock

South Dakota

South Dakota is just one big city .
In South Dakota there is no
Shortness in trying .
The pressure in South Dakota
Comes from desire and passion for life
Fishing and hunting .
The curve of a smile on South Dakota people's faces
Make a lot of things go straight .
In South Dakota people truly live
Until they die .
At the end of the rope South Dakota people
Always have hope .
In South Dakota God is your friend
For South Dakota to me is heaven .
No one is ever alone here .
In South Dakota people get special calluses
They are called friendship calluses .
In South Dakota the sky is the limit
The stars are always bright at night .
The wind always blows and you can always
Run with the sun and the wind .
South Dakota sun never grows old .
The people in South Dakota are special
We all have passion and compassion
No place on earth is like South Dakota.
We all are just one big family
And that's the way it should be

By Brock

Cherish

May we cherish our dancing nice'n'easy
Even in the Hon-Dah with hardy anyone
On the dance floor !
Let us not forget to cherish the past
And also today and the future that is yet to come .
Let us never ignore a simple beautiful
Rainbow ever more .
We have many more beautiful things
Yet to explore .
Have you seen any candy cotton fields ?
I have only seen them in my dreams .
We must always cherish our simple dreams
For they simply may come true .
Never give up on a dream with out a fight
For when you win you will get a big hug
From the ones you love .
You will never lose a battle when you
Have a friend who cares for you like me
Even if I can't dance as well as you do
But always cherish the smallest of things
From a friend's smile to the beautiful music
That true friends share on a dance floor .

By Brock

The Rest Home

If you go to a rest home
Get a box of puppies for an afternoon
And take them to visit the residents
Of the home .
Stand back and watch the smiles .
Be the person who brightens
Their room just by entering their rooms .
I'm telling you , if you do this you will never
Get to big for your britches ,
If you go to the home with a box
Of puppies and a smile on your face
You will make everyone's day
Even your own so go today .

By Brock

Remember

Remember that no time spent
With your child is ever wasted .
Remember that no time is ever
Wasted that makes two people
Better friends.
Are you friends with your children ?
Remember be friends with your children
But make the rules for your children
Clear , fair and consistent ,
But most of all love them
Remember love and remember
Children grow .
We just hope they grow up .

By Brock

A South Dakota Martini

A South Dakota martini
Is a cold beer and 1 or 2 or 3
Olives that is all you need .
You can sit on your patio
With family and friends and lessen
To the radio
Or just drink your South Dakota martini .
You can sit and sip and think of old memories
Like the time your uncle killed ants
With a fly swatter as they crawled
Along on the floor of the patio
Or the fish that got away
Because it was so big and you
Could not keep
Or the time we all went pheasant hunting
And the sun got in the way .
Oh I need one more SD. martini .
Oh now I am thinking way back
To the old days of blue grass strippers
Out in the fields of SD. and how the
Wind blew and how it still does to this day .
Oh I need 1 more SD. martini
Before I sleep under the SD sky .

By Brock

Home

For years I have driven
Thousands of miles north .
I have flown millions of miles south .
I have run
Many miles west .
I have trucked a hundred miles east,
And were ever I am
And no matter how far
I am from home ,there is always with me
The thoughts of my sweet old home .

By Brock

Wisdom

Does your coach or parent have wisdom ?
To expect perfection is unreal .
To expect and accept wisdom
From anyone at any age is a type of
Imperfection but still wisdom .
To teach what God has taught us
With action not words is the best
Type of teaching and wisdom as well .
It is right to always do right
When it is tough to do right .
Don't always read between the lines .
Don't let weeds grow around your dreams .
Don't be concerned with your rights
That you forget your manners .
Be humble and polite but don't
Let anyone push you around .
Do you have any wisdom ?

By Brock

An Early Heaven

A happy family is an early heaven .
When you go fishing and you are lucky
To find the thermo cline and you
Get fish after fish time after time
That is an early heaven to me .
When hunting and getting the pheasant
That almost got away that is an
Early heaven to me .
When I go for a run at night
And I push everything behind me
And I put a smile on my face as big
As the full moon that is an early
Heaven to me .
When I go fishing or hunting or running
With true friends in the morning
Or in the moon light
That is all a part of an early heaven .
Have you found your early heaven
In the past or even today
Or do you have to wait !
How about surprise an old friend
With a phone call and that might
Be to the two of you an early heaven
For a little while may be !

By Brock

It Is On The Hook

They come in all sizes
And shapes and names
You will never know if they
Jump or just pop up
Or just run with your line
There is a catch and release
From any shore or any size
Of boat that I am on or in
You can slap a bass
With a tap tap tap
The walleyes have big eyes at sunrise
Their eyes are shut at sunset it seems
But it is just for a little while
Let us all go fishing with worms on the hook
And see what we get today
The biggest fish ever is already on the hook

By Brock

Arrive

When you are born , you come into a beautiful world .
This world has so much to behold .
You stifle to reach for all the gusto .
You go to school for many years to obtain
Or is it to gain an education
Or is it for a pig skin .

When you get out of what they call school ,
You go for what is the highest level of education ,
That is my child everyday life !
You may go around the world to find yourself ?
You may make many attempts at numerous jobs !
There is always the possibility of marriage
And a child or two to take along on your ride through life .

Your life will have mountains to climb and rollercoaster's to ride .
You will have your ups and downs , but we all hope there'll be more highs .

You could become a grandparent?
You could live to be an octogenarian and beyond .
Through life you will happily travel to here and there
And go slip sliding through life .
You will stop along the way .
I will have a pit stop , because of you and me ,
Oh what fun life is for us .
We'll never arrive anywhere but once in life,
When we all die and end up with our maker .

"So just go with life , for only God knows ,
When and where we'll arrive for we will never be late for God "

By Brock

Reality

Reality is the realization
That there is no one way
To solve a problem and
There is no easy way either
This is true reality to me

By Brock

Last Dance

I was smooth dancing with my lady .
I had a feeling this would be our last dance .
She was dancing with her eyes in a distant haze
Like she was a million miles away .
To tell the true , she seemed like she
Was in a poor girls trance .
I felt like I was dancing with my sister .
As the song ended , I felt like I was dragging ,
An extra suit case across the floor .
There was no more love between us anymore .
We did not have to say anything when the dance was over .
We knew it was the last dance and the last thing
We would ever do together , so you see it was more
Than the last dance
.
By Brock

Clank-Clank , Whoosh-Whoosh , Toot-Toot

I saw a little train it was vary small
But it is just as superlative as the big trains
And the same track carries any size of train .
Did you know that trains do not eat dirt ?
No matter , the dimension of the train , it always has a big vision .
It always is free to whistle to a lady or children
And never gets into trouble .
Whenever it goes through a dark tunnel ,
It knows it has the fortitude to know
That there is light at the end of the tunnel .
The train is continually bound for somewhere .
Whenever it leaves my town , I hope the train will come back soon .
The trains of today are not like the ones of yeaster years ,
There are so fewer of them .
So when I hear the train ,clank-clank whoosh-whoosh toot- toot
Around the bend on its way back to my town , my heart turns
Inside out for I wonder if I will ever see that train again .
I learned so much on just one adventures ride on a train .
I know the future of the train is very shaky .
The train is so majestic .
You will never hear the end of the clank-clank , whoosh-whoosh , toot-toot
As long as you have a memory .
This is my sentimental journey of her and my way to wave
Good-by to her today .

By Brock

Dad

Nuts and bolts
And nails and screws
He has them in his right pocket
with his knife always .
Dad I need this
And that to get fixed .
I want this and that .
Dad will always do what he can
So he can read the newspaper tonight
Before he falls asleep and maybe before
he eats .

By Brock

Spinning

My head is spinning
like sometimes out of control .
Spinning is motion for the wheel
That is true,
But today I am wanting
To be a winner of a wheel of fortune .
I have tried to just cross
The busy street some nights ,
But all I see is the spinning of the busy
World in front of me .
One day the spinning will stop
And we will all hopefully lean a lesson
From all the spinning .