Mama's Chasin' Toads

down by the pond

~

Mama's chasing toads

over by the pond

she used to chase frogs

'til one day she got stung

and I told her...

Mama!

that

don't

make

one 

ounce

of

sense

and she looked at me all serious

 almost like I was

dense

she said

sweet pea

let me give you a piece of old school advice

from a mama who's been around the pond once or twice

I once met a frog who was handsome as could be

and it ain't no lie when I say that he stung me like a bee

every time that frog whipped out his long sticky tongue

I got me a hard smack right there on my bum

So you can go and chase them handsome frogs when you're older

but don't come back here claiming mama never warned ya

I suggest you try finding a nice toad from our pond

a tall one, a short one you really can't go wrong

'cause when you find the right toad 

that will answer your call

you'll be loving him forever

with them big warts and all

~

Author's Note

does the different fonts make it hard to read?

Reviews

[redzone]

frogs, toads, and nary a prince among them... it’s not the warts so much, it’s the bruises and black eyes and everything else.... why is it that our mommas, our sisters and daughters, going back many millennia, have such a hard time finding an equal love???? Hopefully one day us men will discover how to be human and humane... tell momma to be careful around that pond... they tell us it’s insanity to think doing the same thing over and over hoping for a different result, but I think it might also be the definition of DENSE....

Love your poem Ana for the formatting yes, but for the power it packs

[Ana Papaya]

I think the momma here means well but is a bit nuts. :)
Thanks for the great comment!!

[barleygirl]

I love the different fonts. I love the entire poem, but especially the last long section where your rhyme & rhythm beat a drum kinda like them throaty frogs/toads do! I just read a toad poem by Dave Brown & he's all worked up about male toads riding the backs of the female ones, so you two poets must be on the same croaky wavelength! Both are fun poems & make me want to pen a frog ditty soon! (((HUGS))) Fondly, Margie

[Ana Papaya]

So thrilled you liked this one! Thanks for reaching in to find it. And would love to read your frog ditty too!
I'll be looking for it!

[Dave Brown]

Another really decent bit of imaginative writing
I was expecting the prince thingy but!!
This relates to my wife who goes out each evening in an effort to save her hostas and collects an ever-abundant number of slugs

[Ana Papaya]

Lol! :)
They're pests. But on the bright side, at least it gives her something to do. :)

[Dave Brown]

I don't complain if she swears at them

[Ana Papaya]

:) I imagine you find it amusing

[1VJ]

This is too funny, what a delightful read! Ha @ dense, what every mom is silently thinking about her thick skulled kids. :)

[Ana Papaya]

Thanks so much Paloma. :)
Yes, surely every mom thinks that at some point.
And to be fair, mother knows best. :)

[J. K. Beach]

There's a whole lot of dense sense in this one... The title lured me into the pond and moral made me stay... and smile:)

[Ana Papaya]

Lol. Thanks. :)
I'm lousy with catchy titles. I'm glad this one baited you.

[Paul Bell]

Brilliant, Mama's are always wise and right. Mine was also a great contraceptive. She said she would kill me if i got any girl pregnant.

[Ana Papaya]

These days the diseases might beat her to it.
Thanks Paul!

[Writer at last! Sky ~]

The font is okay & the poem is nice. Mama's advice is always special in everyone's life.

[Ana Papaya]

It's true, Mama knows best. Thanks!!

[Writer at last! Sky ~]

Most Welcome!!

[Davidgeo]

I've been smelling Thomas Stearns Eliot on some of your poems lately.

You must have good taste in poetry or something like that.

I bet you'd like Arthur Rimbaud just as much.

Are you certain that you aren't able to speak, or at least read, French?

[Ana Papaya]

I can speak a little and read a lot of french. I just don't know "bad" words. I don't know arthur rimbaud ' s poetry. If it's silly I'll probably like it. I'll take the tseliot comment as a compliment?

[Davidgeo]

I may have mentioned him to be my favorite at one time or another... yeah, you could say the comparison was a compliment. Rimbaud is not silly but he is very, very surreal. One of the first to do it well actually. I can speak and read English pretty well.... I google translate everything mon cher.

[Davidgeo]

insert "else" after 'everything' and before "my in French"

[Ana Papaya]

Thanks so much for reading and commenting mon ami.

[Ana Papaya]

Lol. Ok. I have inserted "else" as instructed. But I kinda knew what you meant dingbat...

[Davidgeo]

mon plaisir jolie dame....

or something like that

[Gee]

Really like this take on "you might have to kiss a few frogs before you find your Prince" Makes me wanna try and write a wee humorous or myself. Sweet.

[Ana Papaya]

Gee, you do silly humour very well so I would say YES. Write something new! :)
Thank you very much for popping in on me.

[Gee]

My pleasure

[Mitch]

No problem with the type. I like the story here. Very classic country feel.

[Ana Papaya]

Thanks so much Mitch. Words of wisdom I'll be sharing with my own daughter one day but not for several years still. And maybe not in this form! Thanks again!