Today, over coffee, i asked Daniel to give me a topic for my next poem. He cut out a small paper star with an exacto knife, colored it green, and gave it to me. :) Here's what was written:
Last night I discovered
To my very great surprise,
While looking through my telescope,
A wonder in the skies:
One star shone green, bright neon green,
Not yellow like the rest--
"That couldn't be a ball of flame!"
I mused with interest.
"What could it be composed of, then?
Lime jello, possibly,
That jiggles as it floats around
In zero-gravity.
Perhaps it is a giant frog
That eats the stars like flies--
And maybe planets, too, and we
Are all about to die!
I'll bet it has a tongue a million,
Billion miles long,
That could reach as just as easily
As I could sing a song!
Ugh, now I'm merely panicking!
Stop panicking, and think!
Just count to ten, take deeper breaths,
Go grab an ice-cold drink...
That's better. There's the star again...
Oh dear, I think it moved!
What if it IS a frog, and my
Hypothesis is proved--
Proved by our death! Too late for fame
Or scientific clout--
Oh dear, I feel like a baited,
Hooked, and helpless trout!
It's closer--yikes, it is a frog!
And naught can save us now!
It's HUGE! It leaps...off nothing...
And all I can say is...wow.
What's this? It's passed us by?
It isn't hungry after all!
I'm so relieved! It needs a name.
I think I'll call him Paul!"
Someday you will write and illustrate a book and be super famous. I hope you will give me your autograph :)
ReplyDeletethanks alisha! someday when i quit being lazy/trepidatious and full of various other kinds of inertia, i will write and illustrate a book. and of course you may have an autograph :)
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