Toad
Yeah, I tried to make it look like a toad [EDIT: the Reader, in its toadlike blandness, ate my formatting! Try opening the page itself if you want slightly less of a disapppointment]. Not my greatest success but I haven’t got much time so, you only get a sort-of toad. Toads are just shaped like gross little wads with feet, right?
Toad sits flatly
His wide mouth stretches open
Tongue like a water balloon hits a flying insect.
Toad is a predator
But how can something so floppy be a predator?
Predators are supposed to be agile, wicked, sharp of eye and tooth
But toad is weak, soft, walleyed, broad and flat.
He may jump high but when he lands he thuds like a bag of mud.
Pick him up and he wets himself, really embarrassing.
His mouth is a bottomless hole
His stomach eternally stretches
And when he sings
All he says is
brrap brrap
Yup, that’s a toad, alright (not the design, the poem itself – although the design ain’t bad).
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LOL! Love the poem. Was there supposed to be a picture?
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No, there’s no picture. It’s just a bad shape poem. Try squinting… haha
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Oh! I bet you looked at it in the reader. How wonderful that it removed my formatting. What else has it been doing to my poems… -_-
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Busted. Using the reader. Let toddle off to the actual site…
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Squinted! Fat frog! “Knee deep”. “Keen deep”.
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“Knee deep”!
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I don’t know what you’re talking about but I am delighted nonetheless
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LOL! “Knee deep” is a frog joke. Their croaking sounds like “knee deep”. The joke is “Ask a frog how deep the water is…’knee deep’.”
Silly stuff…🤣🐸
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Ohhhh, cute!
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I could tell the poem looked like a fat little toad.
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I dug one of those burrowing toads up in my front yard once – your description is perfect 😦
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I like toads. They’re just funny little handfuls of ugly life
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I guess toads need love too. Although my hands felt like they were holding cold snot
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Hahaha
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