A little something for the kids today. These are a sampling from a collection of poems that I haven’t got published yet. I’m looking for an illustrator, and then I’ll go ahead and do the createspace/amazon thingie. I’d like somebody who does quick, funny, line drawing type caricatures (Booboo, this could be for youboo).
Do Not Feed The Animals
Anyway, if anybody is, or knows, an illustrator, let me know. If you like the poems, whether you have kids or not, feel free to share.
Behold the Water Buffalo
big and ugly, dumb and slow
They thrive in hot and humid weather
They give us meat, they give us leather
Their horns are curved and very long
Their milk is rich, their backs are strong
They’re somewhat bigger than a cow
And often used to pull a plow
Which is an important economic factor
For farmers who cannot afford a tractor
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Vultures aren’t so stupid.
They use their ugly head.
Just like human beings,
they prefer to eat what’s dead
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Things that crawl across the ground,
Stealthily, without a sound
They move by day, they move by night
With poison in their savage bite
And just one bite is all it takes
To kill a child
Evil Snakes
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The rhinoceros is enormous
And he has a wicked horn
If you cross him, you will rue
The day that you were born
Personally, I think that it’s a riot
This frightening beast
Should have a vegan diet
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Everybody loves penguins
They’re inherently adorable
Which makes the destruction of their habitat
All the more deplorable
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Cows and Horses, Dogs and Cats,
People, Sheep and Camels
All feed their babies on Mamma’s milk,
and thus are known as mammals
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Koala Bears are very cute
And Panda Bears are too
One lives on Eucalyptus leaves
The other on bamboo
This is just to let you know
If you were unaware
The loveable Koala
Is not, in fact, a bear
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Giraffes are tall and elegant
They browse upon the leaves
On the African Savannah
Blowing gently in the breeze
They are certainly well suited
To live in these environs
With just one little problem:
They taste real good to lions
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Flamingos have such very long legs
I wonder how they don’t break their eggs
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If dinosaurs had never disappeared
Life on earth would be a little weird
We complain about traffic, rain and taxes
But we don’t have to deal with Tyrannosaurus Rexes
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For a book of children’s poems, I don’t know if it’s a good idea to talk about snakes killing children, or the fact that vultures, like humans, eat dead things, even though it’s true. The kids might turn into vegan snakeophobes (I don’t know the correct word for snakeophobia but there must be one).
Herpephobia , I think…the one I have questions about including in the book is one I didn’t include here:
The Polar Bears are in a desperate state
their shrinking environment makes it hard, for them to find a mate
as the weather turns from blizzardy to drizzly
sometimes the Polar Bears fate is a little Grizzly