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But where will he put the broken eggshells afterward?
ReplyDeleteThe little lizard peered into the cave.
ReplyDeleteSomething within was enticing him to brave.
He could sense luscious spiders inside.
He let his hunger, his caution override.
The cavity once had been a radium mine,
Wooden support beams still rigid over time.
But there were tiny sounds deeper in the rocks.
Ant work gangs, hauling off glowing blocks!
Over all, mutant spiders made the ants whine,
Web whips they cracked to get them in line!
Like Egyptian slaves ants were made to suffer --
One swipe of gecko tongue, the spiders were supper!
Good morning, All!
ReplyDeleteI offer the following, with apologies to Wilbur for the name of my protagonist.
The rhyme could no be bettered.
"Chet, Snacking"
Chet the Gecko tried to entice
the tasty little grey mouse,
that fled to the wall where brother mice
used a cavity there for a house.
Chet then aimed at a lizard that scurried
into a dead electrical socket.
"Well, I'm not rigid," he said, unhurried,
& munched on a spider he took from his pocket.
~ OMK
"Lizard Wizard"
ReplyDeleteNicky found it nerve-wracking
to do all that wild-life tracking.
And having to enter a cavity
felt a bit like a depravity
until that sweet gecko she found
in a hole a bit underground.
The poor critter was so frigid
it made him stiff and rigid.
So Nicky dug him out,
enticing him with a shout.
"Gecko" now lives happily in her home
where they call him their 'garden gnome.'
It looks like we've moved beyond our posting problems, Misty, or we may hope so.
ReplyDeleteYour Nicky seems to have awarded her gecko a comfy sinecure.
Gneat!
Does the job come with one of those pointy red gnome caps?
Those are gnifty!
~ OMK
'Tis the season for swarming ant attacks in our home.
ReplyDeleteAargh!
They leave me with little sympathy for those regimented little beasties, Owen, so your poetic depiction of their enslavement by the spiders, while horrific & hellish, does not win me to the anti-arachnid side.
I console myself that your tongue-swiping gecko may not be sated by his spider supper--but may well have an appetite to put the ants out of their misery!
~ OMK
How interesting that both of your morning poems focus on the Gecko as a carnivore, interested in eating other little animals, Owen and Ol' Man Keith. And on top of that both of your Gecko lizards seem to especially enjoy "munching spiders" (Chet) or enjoying "luscious spiders". What a complicated small animal world we have out there.
ReplyDeleteWonder if Nicky is soon going to learn about this whole little university from her Gecko?
Chet the Gecko would prefer a larger--& presumably tastier--meal, but he'll keep the hunger pangs at bay with a cockroach, spider, or other insect, even a worm or two, until he can snare warm-blooded prey or cannibalize a favorite "dish."
ReplyDelete~ OMK
Sorry so late but had to solve Thursday early. BTW, talk about pop-cul people and wild-eyed guesses
ReplyDeleteTourists come to Florida seeking sunny days
But not all tourists are wise to our Florida ways
When it comes to the gecko
It's pays to not be too rigid,
That they are not palmetto bugs doesn't take a wizard
And so the hapless yankee tried to entice the harmless reptile
From its cavity in the wall or from a crack try to beguile
"Get back to NewYork m'lady and leave our critters be
And for your education please watch Geico ads on TV
WC
When I drove the van shuttling tourists to the beach I picked up a group heading back to the airport
ReplyDeleteOne lady with a NewYork accent was telling the passengers about hunting a pesky lizard with her shoe to dispatch the poor critter as if it were a cockroach.
We all just quietly listened albeit in some shock. No sense telling her that we don't do any harm to geckos nor they to us.
WC
Wilbur, loved your Gecko poem and the story about that awful lady who was mean to a Gecko. Good advice you had for her--the Gecko ads on TV are pretty sweet, aren't they.
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