Poetry Break: Things that I wonder about...
I have a question that somebody out there might be able to answer. Let me introduce it this way:
Natural Philosophy
On a smooth granite stone
Sat a frog all alone
And queried a by-bustling fly:
"Should a big bull giraffe
Raise its head, snort, and laugh
When the lightning comes crashing nearby?"
Though the fly paused in flight --
A superlative sight! --
It impatiently gave this reply:
"On requests to tempt fate,
I'd prefer less debate --
Ask giraffes why they're dying to fry!"(Horace Jeffery Hodges, Copyright 1991)
My question: How have giraffes, the tallest creatures on the African savannah, managed to survive electrical storms?
posted by Horace Jeffery Hodges @ 4:52 AM
6 comments
6 Comments:
What a wonderful poem! Perhaps the giraffes have survived because the trees are even taller.
Somebody once told me that giraffes can see the storms approaching and have time enough to run away.
I've suggested that the two small 'horns' on their heads are actually natural-born lightning rods.
That hypothesis has occasioned a few philosophical snorts.
Anyway, I'm glad that you like the . . . uh, 'poem.'
I like this one, too. But...
On a smooth granite stone
Sat a frog alone.
And when a fly came bustling by
It queried the slow fly.
And over the frog belly's groan
It stopped, replied--we know not why.
:p
--lollabrats
(please delete above)
Okay, I deleted the one that you mis-posted.
Slow fly, pass by!
Jeffery Hodges
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"Slow fly, pass by!"
--Jeffery Hodges
Slow flies, alas,
From cloaca, pass--
Away by @55...
:(
--lollabrats
I was thinking more Yeats:
Cast a cold eye
On life, on death.
Horseman, pass by.
Jeffery Hodges
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