Wednesday, April 6, 2016

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[anteater: a google dot com image]


SOMEWHAT SILLY
Do anteaters eat aunts?
What a wildlife to live!
And of uncles, would they flaunt
A tongue so fickle, as to give,
Riddles to every question asked?

Chased by the pride of lions

Truly, i'd rather be an aardvark
Running fast and burrowing deep;
So grandma can sing me to sleep.
SOMEWHAT SILLY © gillena cox 2016


Written for Kerry's prompt
Get Listed! ~ The Compound Word Edition
Imaginary Garden With Real Toads
The challenge: to use compound words in constructive and imaginative ways:a minimum of three words to include in your poem of the day.

AND

Day 3: Idiots Herding the Blind 4/6

34 comments:

  1. Oh to be an aardvark with a kind grandmother to sing me to sleep!

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    1. (✿◠‿◠) thanks for dropping in Kerry

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  2. I'm liking your poem, Gillena. For some reasons I have a soft spot for grandmothrs and aardvarks.
    Just last year I learned that anteaters and aardvarks are not the same. They are altogether different species, not related then, and aardvarks are them only living members of their specie.
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    1. (✿◠‿◠) thank you for your appreciation Jim

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  3. "a tongue so fickle, as to give" I love that line. I enjoyed your poem very much.

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  4. Chased by the pride! Watch out.

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  5. Ha.. the aunteater is such wonderful fun...

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    1. (✿◠‿◠) Happy you dropped in Bjorn

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  6. Grandmothers have such magic to make everything better, don't they? May we all find that kind of wisdom one day. For if we do, pride will never be fast enough to get us.

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  7. P.S. Your link for Dark Poetry for the Cruellest Month was posted on the wrong post. I went ahead and deleted that message, and posted the link to your poem on the post for the prompt. I would hate for people to miss your words. Thanks a bunch for participating! ♥

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  8. Silly, perhaps - but SO much fun!

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  9. I love the cozy den closing. :)

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  10. Nice to be sung to sleep! Thanks. K.

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  11. Just cute and whimsical. Smiley stuff.

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  12. Such a delightful read, an aardvark inspires too:)

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  13. I Love Silly :D Wonderful play on words :D XXX

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