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I meant as a co-mod or interim mod until she finds her way back here.
I have another one from my head, I think it was Ogden Nash since he seems to have made most of these types of poems, but I couldn't find it on the internet to verify his authorship:
The Camel
The camel is a mammal by Arabs highly prized I rode one once, like a dunce And got a huge surprise It looked so easy, cool and breezy, Camels must be fun! So up I got and let it trot under the desert sun
Oh Rock-like hump With every bump My pants did rise in air Till on the ground myself I found (the camel went elsewhere)
The camel is a mammal By Arabs highly prized Let them ride, I'm satisfied To be mechanized!
I also remember one about a panther...
The panther is like a leopard Except it hasn't been peppered Should you behold a panther's crough Prepare to say "ouch" Better yet, when called by a panther Don't anther
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Thanks for the poems froglipz, I really like the Camel especially the line "Oh Rock-like hump With every bump My pants did rise in air". My kids got to ride a camel once and what struck me was how tall camels are and how high up my kids were ... I couldn't help feeling a little parental concern about what would happen to them if they fell off the camel like this dude does in the poem. I was wishing I had a handy bike helmet or something.
And maybe Penny could be interim poetry forum moderator. You have my vote. As to what happens on this forum, I really like having a 'poem a day' from some source or other. Just something interesting to read over a cup of coffee and maybe post a comment.
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The Lama
The one-l lama, He's a priest; The two-l llama, He's a beast. And I will bet A silk pajama There isn't any Three-l lllama.
Also Ogden Nash
My parents would always end that wirh
A three l lllama is one heck of a big fire!!! (they were volunteer firemen)
Another poem from my childlike brain this one by Laura Elizabeth Richards
Eletelephony
Once there was an elephant, Who tried to use the telephant— No! no! I mean an elephone Who tried to use the telephone— (Dear me! I am not certain quite That even now I've got it right.) Howe'er it was, he got his trunk Entangled in the telephunk; The more he tried to get it free, The louder buzzed the telephee— (I fear I'd better drop the song Of elephop and telephong!)
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froglipz wrote:
I definitely enjoyed that format through the 500 and part of the Rattle Bag. Anyone have an anthology suggestion?
Good idea, I'll have a lookout for an interesting anthology and maybe others have suggestions and then we can pick one and post poems on a daily basis ..
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me too! I remember explaining to someone how you CAN have real friendships with people you have never met you just need to be wary of pilots and underwear models...
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And here is another poem completely randomly
Where the Sidewalk Ends
There is a place where the sidewalk ends And before the street begins, And there the grass grows soft and white, And there the sun burns crimson bright, And there the moon-bird rests from his flight To cool in the peppermint wind.
Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black And the dark street winds and bends. Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow, And watch where the chalk-white arrows go To the place where the sidewalk ends.
Yes we'll walk with a walk that is measured and slow, And we'll go where the chalk-white arrows go, For the children, they mark, and the children, they know The place where the sidewalk ends.
And of course that was Shel Silverstein
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froglipz wrote:
me too! I remember explaining to someone how you CAN have real friendships with people you have never met you just need to be wary of pilots and underwear models...
I like this !! Sounds like great advice ... and I kind of get underwear models, but pilots? Maybe cause they are always out of town? Or ... ?
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LoL it was one of the biggest lies told by guys about their occupations in the 90's in the heyday of internet chat. the more attractive they claim to be the less likely it is to be true....
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