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Open Poetry #25

Distinguishing Creatures

Dom Mart
Member

since 1999-08-17

Posts 164
Florida

0 posted 2003-03-30 06:54 AM

A frog in a tree
looks the same to me
as a toad beneath its rock.

And I haven't the art
to tell apart
a 'gator and a croc.

But I can, as a rule,
distinguish a fool
from anyone with sense.

Though on the face
there isn't a trace
of any difference.

littlewing
Member Rara Avis

since 2003-03-02

Posts 9655
New York

1 posted 2003-03-30 06:57 AM

Dom - hehehe smart write here - liked this . . . xxoo

sweetwater
Member

since 2002-12-16

Posts 178
Perth

2 posted 2003-03-30 08:46 AM

hehe.. clever little poem. I liked the rhyme.

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

3 posted 2003-03-30 01:03 PM

neat! liked it!

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

4 posted 2003-03-30 01:22 PM

sheer genius
on the face of it, anyway

love your playful presentation of a profound thought

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