Poem a Day - For today’s prompt, I want you to pick an animal; make that animal the title of your poem; then, write a poem. You could be very general with your animal title (“Bees” or “Lion”) or specific (“Flipper” or “Lassie”). You could even be very silly with something like “Tony, the Tiger,” I guess (that tiger on the cereal box).
Copper Chickens
Barnyard fowl
roost in an aerie
strut in the yard
all bright and airy
copper chickens
with a nod and a bow
flap tawny wings
perched on a bough
plump fat hens
sisterhood clique
sing solidarity
cluck, clack, click
For more about Poem a Day, go to Poetic Asides.
Those silly copper chickens
ReplyDeletemake me laugh like the dickens
Their sisterhood clique
makes them anything but meek
All the boys come a running
cuz they are so stunning
That's cute! Made me smile. :)
ReplyDeletePretty little clucks,
ReplyDeleteSittin' on their eggs,
When they stop laying,
Stewed chicken legs!
Wonderful imagination!
ReplyDeleteNice lines, Nessa!
Girls,Girls,Girls!
ReplyDeleteLOVE IT!
btw~i have chickens.
Thom: You are King of the Rhyming Roost.
ReplyDeleteCherie: Chickens are kind of comical.
Quilly: That’s the way it works; D
Indrani: Thanks.
Noe Noe: That’s cool, that you have chickens. I used to feed them on various relatives’ farms when I was young.
Thank you. Now I have a reason to write poetry again. I have a poetry blog also but haven't written anything for ages. Thanks also for your comments on my regular blog. I linked you - BTW Any relation to Val? Or does he spell his last name differently... if I weren't so lazy I would look it up.
ReplyDeleteI thought it was fun, too, Actonbell.
ReplyDeletePerfect nursery rhyme. Anyone expecting a grandchild soon should learn that poem.
Jay: Val is on a different branch of the family tree that branched off a few generations back.
ReplyDeleteActonbell: I enjoyed it too.
Doug: My grandchild will have enough reasons for trauma.
so cute!
ReplyDeletei wonder why your chickens remind me of certain individuals of a whole different species...
Oh how cute! I LOVE the use of the homophones! Shoot! I never would have thought of that!
ReplyDeleteJuliana: They make me think of high school kids.
ReplyDeleteMelli: You are the only one to mention the homophones. Thank-you, thank-you, thank-you!
I like the homophones too. Probably other people noticed but were too lazy to Google in order to properly distinguish among homophones, homonyms, and homographs, the way I had to--only to find that Melli beat me to it anyway.
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