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Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

0 posted 2010-01-29 06:27 AM

First grade was such fun.
Especially the day
we got to work
with modeling clay.
I was so excited,
I made a great looking dog.
and was just delighted.
Then the teacher came along
and asked me what I had made...
and I hesitated.
That was a mistake.
She pushed in the nose
of my creation
and said it looked like a frog.
I was much too shy to tell her
it was really a dog.
So I painted little fido
and sent him off to the kiln
and when he came back
I looked at him
and thought...
He didn't look like any frog
that I had ever seen
except for the fact
that my "dog" was green.

Ida

Robert E. Jordan
Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1 posted 2010-01-29 09:59 AM

Yo dear Ida,

This is a cute one.

How did your dog become green. Did you paint the dog green, or did the firing process in the kiln turn the clay green?

Love Bobby

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

2 posted 2010-01-29 10:28 AM

Hi Bobby, I guess I was kind of like Bones as a child, eager to please. So when the teacher decided my dog was a frog I painted it green. I remember it so well that I must still be a little angry at myself for not standing up for my dog.
Ida

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

3 posted 2010-01-29 09:51 PM

a fine 'slice of life' write!

much applause!!

wicked
Junior Member

since 2010-01-29

Posts 22
Florida, USA

4 posted 2010-01-29 09:54 PM

awww thats so sad...and cute at the same time.

great fluency. good work!

I am that I am,
And that makes it me.
I float like a rock
But I sting like a bee.

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

5 posted 2010-01-30 09:53 AM

How delightful and profound in its revelation of your shyness, dear Ida. Truth is adults never see what children see. They should not judge, but humbly ask, that would be much better. It's a very strong childhood experience, from which no doubt you have learned.

Love,
Margherita

Alison

Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-27

Posts 9318
Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy!

6 posted 2010-02-15 03:29 AM

Ida,

You make me smile even when I feel my heart twist a bit. Maybe your dog was a pug and that is why his nose was squished. I think a green dog would be kind of cool. Maybe you felt the need to please, but you had/have imagination.

xoxoxo
Alison

2islander2
Member Ascendant

since 2008-03-12

Posts 6825
by the sea

7 posted 2010-02-15 02:32 PM

hello Ida, it talks a lot about childhood and the way they build their mind by opposing their thoughts to the reality, this is a very accurate poem and colorful as a temptation of telling the truth of miserstandings....I loved it a lot.

yann

Magnus

Member Laureate

since 2001-10-10

Posts 14135
South Carolina, USA

8 posted 2010-02-15 06:53 PM

This is simply devine...awesome!

Earl Brinkman
Senior Member

since 2010-03-03

Posts 1183
Osaka, Japan

9 posted 2010-05-29 08:17 AM

Being a fan of poems about dogs, this really tickled my fancy. Thank you!!!