Ants, Ents, and Elephants

Here are a couple of random, fun poems.


This first one was greatly influenced by the following two poems:
1. "The Elephants Bounced"
2. "Narnian Suite" by C.S. Lewis

Ants, Ents and Elephants 2/27/2010
Ants and ents and elephants!
Stomping, stamping, jumping stumps!
The ants are dancing six-legged jigs,
Playing squash and eating figs.
The ents at ent moot ent about
And throw about the brussel sprouts.
The elephants wear bell-topped pants
And trumpet out their "won'ts" and "can'ts!"
While each is singing "Kum ba yah"
And gormandizing baklava!



Since this next one is about juggling, you'll notice that it has three, three-lined stanzas. The last extended line is intended to give a sense of indefinite continuation and flow, as in juggling.

The Juggler 9/1/2009
The juggler tosses up a ball:
For a second, seems to stall,
Then to the other hand it falls.

Smoothly up the next one flies
Followed closely by his eyes
Which see it fall, though soon to rise.

For now the third is here and there
And still his eyes do seem to stare
At blurs which form a ceaseless pair
of dancers seeking answers in the air.