Alligator Snores
I've heard that sound sleeping alligators
Make a horrendous commotion when they snore.
They have 80 large teeth
And the air when they sleep
Vibrates against each to create quite a roar.
The Caterpillar
~Ogden Nash
I find among the poems of Schiller
No mention of the caterpillar,
Nor can I find one anywhere
In Petrarch or in Baudelaire,
So her I sit in extra session
To give my personal impression,
The caterpillar, as it's called,
Is often hairy, seldom bald;
It looks as if it never shaves;
When as it walks, it walks in waves;
And from the cradle to the chrysalis
It's utterly speechless, songless, whisteless.
The Dolphin
Dexter, a small bottle-nosed dolphin
Wished his nose was straight as a pin
He thought his proboscis
Would surely disgust us
The nature of its flatness
He thought was so classless
Until on a swim
He met bottle-nosed Kim
And his love for the shape did begin
Eletelephony
~Laura E. Richards
(1850-1943)
Once there was an elephant,
Who tried to use the telephantNo! 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!)
I Have a Little Frog
~Jamie Carden
I have a little frog
His name is Tiny Tim.
I put him in the bathtub,
To see if he could swim.
He drank up all the water,
And gobbled up the soap!
And when he tried to talk
He had a bubble in his throat!.
Owl
~Anonymous
A wise old owl sat in an oak,
The more he heard the less he spoke;
The less he spoke the more he heard.
Why aren’t we all like that wise old bird?
Racoon
Enough about your mask already
And those rings around your tail.
I want to know how you get into things
As easily as a thief just out of jail.
You pick the locks with those little hands.
No garbage can is safe.
Bird feed is scattered from here to aft.
If it's food there's no escape.
You're cute, I must admit it.
But a rascal nonetheless.
So I'll just get to cleaning up,
Cuz you'll never pick up your mess.
Stegosaurus
There once was a bony stegosaurus
Who wasn’t a friend of brontosaurus
They both ate plants
But never ants
That boney Stegosaurus
One Room Apartment
It must be cramped in that one room apartment.
Not even any room to store your posessions.
Like trapped in somebodys glove compartment.
Parties are most certainly out of the question.