Mami said let's ride in the car;
I wore my pajamas and she drove very far...
We went through a forest, thick with dark trees.
I slept the whole way with my head on my knees.
Then she stopped, got out, at the top of a hill
Where we spread out a blanket and sat very still.
Diamonds were falling, a dazzling delight;
Bright-eyed were we by firefly light.
The Fisheep (a fantasy mammal/fish)
Unlike a true fish
the fisheep doesn't swim very deep
rather, it swishes along and floats
like something made of cotton but a boat.
What is Creative Commons? You will often see photographs posted on this blog by other people. I write the posts but borrow these photographs. These photographers have chosen to use a different type of copyright --not the ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. I find these sharing/caring people's photos in a flickr search for "Creative Commons." You can share their photos as long as you give their identity as the creator. It's very cool. That you everyone in the Creative Commons pool. Love swimming with you!
(As you can see, this is a "common toad," a distant relative of the Toadonkey whose ears are, of course, much bigger.)
Toadonkeys
Very rare and hard to spot.
The largest of farm toads,
more toad than not.
Their spring song is more a bray
familiar like a mare
but not quite a neigh
nay, I say its hard to say
exactly as they are so seldom seen or heard.
They're fast with their legs up front;
they kick behind in a huge gallump.
A miniature seesaw,
they sometimes sing heehaw, heehaw!
I Love Summer Time
I like to feel the sun shine
I like to dip my feet in water cold
I like to skip between the chalk lines
until my days grow old
I like it if the birds still sing
When my dreams take wing,
when it's light,
And the fireflies light up the night
I love summer time
flavored ices bought with dimes
knees scraped and banged up blue
all my wild days long overdue
