My Friendly Stump the Gabble Duck
found my passage blocked with wrath,
a glorious tree reduced to stump
rotting and eaten and in a slump.
Silly, he looked with such big lips,
he gestured me over for a kiss,
squirming away I found in dismay,
his waddling feet could walk away.
Chasing me faster and faster
he quaked and snorted disaster,
and me with no advice to hear,
my ears were clogged with stupid jeers,
What do you do when mobbed by ducks?
What can you do when you emit clucks?
Hope that a lumberman arrives with an ax?
Hope to find a flower to offer in pax?
Rain streamed down and ole gabble drooled,
foamy streams from that maw so cruel,
I huffed and puffed and ran up a hill,
but no hill is terror to a duck with a bill.
Then reaching the edge of a cliff I did slip,
grabbing up handful of moss and sticks,
I tumbled and rattled and landed with a crash,
into the nest of dear gabble and his waiting mash.
And after me came the monstrous duck,
clomping and quaking and devoid of muck,
so I offered up all that I had to muffle,
and found that he liked the surprising found truffle.
I slithered away and then turned and ran,
sweat roiling down and covering my tan,
but arriving back at my car, I called my best friend,
and said QSEDVsfha;oi and ahfahdf at the end.
Published by Sheri Fresonke Harper
Sheri works as a freelance writer, novelist and poet. She worked in the aviation industry at the Port of Seattle and Boeing Company for 20 years as a systems analyst/architect where she edited and wrote over... View profile
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11 Comments
Post a CommentEnjoyed reading this.
Too cute.
How very sweet loved this.
Adorable
very clever!
imaginative
Unusual, but cute. :)
so cute
Funny.
:-) This is cute.