Tuesday, 5 December 2023

December Ode 1

Stuff it... I've decided... my December will mostly be about poetry!
So - to get us started - I present my aforementioned 'Dr Seuss Tribute Poem'.
To give you some context (which is always a bad idea when you're talking about a poem) we were chatting at work about flowers and insects and all sorts of weird stuff, and started realising how many words there are that rhyme with SPERM. And so I started making up a story about a sperm that came from a worm, and it spiralled from there. Someone said, "This reminds me of Dr. Seuss" and my weird brain took that on as a challenge, and this is what I came up with:

FLERM was a GERM
who lived on a WORM
who lived in the PERM
of a large PACHYDERM
He made the beast SQUIRM
when he crawled on its BERM
and when he shot SPERM
it was really quite FIRM
At school every TERM
you would hear him say, ERM....
He wasn't that bright!
So he worked for a FIRM
making THERm-al T-shirts
called Flacket & FLERM
(Nepotism is rife
in the world of the GERM.)

RC 5-12-23

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