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Monthly Archives: February 2013
Seatellite of Love
AnElephantCant forget sensational Seattle A city of high elegant buildings He cavorts around Delightful downtown As though he is back in a playground with children He can have fun in all sorts of places It doesn’t take too much to … Continue reading
Specially Spectacular Spectroscopy
AnElephantCant understand a rainbow Though he knows it’s the wonderfullest thing you can find He has no real clues Observing the hues Maybe because he is colour blind It is perhaps the strangest of all nature’s wonders Created by sunbeams … Continue reading
Ladies who Dine, Firemen who Don’t
The puddle on the floor is growing larger The dog moves uncomfortably away The ladies who dine Still sip at their wine Pretending they have something to say The alarm on the wall sirens loudly The poet is roused from … Continue reading
Posted in Daft Rhymes, Poetry
Tagged alarm on wall, fire truck, fireman, god of rain, king canute, ladies who dine, poetry, sip of wine, tsunami
6 Comments
AnElephant and a Mermaid
AnElephantCant hide his bewonderment At various magical mythical creatures Like Centaurs and Yeti And Unicorns and Nessie And the occasional French Language Teacher He suspects that Ents are quite barking mad And Emmy’s Wood Sprite fascinates A Giant on a … Continue reading
Posted in Daft Rhymes, humour
Tagged bob marley, centaur, ent, hickory dickory dock, jack and the beanstalk, jamming, loch ness monster, madiba, minnow, muhammad ali, nelson mandela, nessie, porpoise, reggae, river spey, seejungfrau, selkie, sirene, the greatest, the mouse ran up the clock, trout, unicorn, wood sprite, xhosa, yeti
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So Calmly Aplombly Snoqualmie
AnElephantCant take his car He doesn’t need to get there so fast It is almost no go Heavy winds and snow Through the Cascades’ Snoqualmie Pass So he hops on a Greyhound in Ellensburg AnElephant on a dog might seem … Continue reading
Posted in Daft Rhymes, travel
Tagged cascades, ellensburg, greyhound bus, iain banks, john sebastian, pass, seattle, she's a lady, snoqualmie, state, washington
8 Comments
Home is where the heart is – Friday Fictioneers
AnElephantCant deny he gets excited Doing his short story for Friday Fictioneers But he has to hurry And it is always a worry In case he runs out of ideas But he bashed out another one this week He hopes … Continue reading
Posted in Friday Fictioneer
Tagged 100 words, flash fiction, friday fictioneers, picket fence, rose garden, short story, tom sawyer
33 Comments
Pullman is Cool Man
AnElephantCant claim to be smart He doesn’t know much about Geography But as an Ayrshire lad It would be quite sad If he did not recognise an undulating topography The rolling hills are like deep brown seas In their covering … Continue reading
Posted in Daft Rhymes, travel
Tagged ayrshire, book illustrator, brused books, frank sinatra, idaho, kary lee, lewiston, palouse, pullman, scenic byway, snake river, undulating topography, wa, walla walla
4 Comments
AnElephant and the Eye of a Needle
AnElephantCant think of too many places On this trip he won’t want to see to again But there is hardly a city That is nearly as pretty As the wonderful waterside Coeur d’Alene The lake is one of natural beauty … Continue reading
The Straw that Broke AnElephant’s Back
AnElephantCant get over some bad news He confesses that this has not thrilled him He has to own up He’s not very grown up Now he’s been told bendy straws are for children You may ask yourself the obvious question … Continue reading
Posted in Daft Rhymes, humour
Tagged bendy, blueberry, croissant, curly, french, muffin, oj, orange juice, straws
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