Challenge
Rhyming challenge! write a silly poem, rhyming one or all of the following words: hippopotamus, yeti, giraffe, capsule, abominable, frolicsome.
First Impressions
On the day they met, he
told her of the yeti
in High Tibet he had found.
She thought his tale
frolicsome, if a little
neurotic; some part of her
wanted to run.
He related his fear of death
so near, saying oh who'll
deliver my capsule
of cyanide, such a fate so
abominable I face!
An honorable constable
in crampons and rope
took pity and gave me hope,
he went on. Back safely
at camp, by the light of a lamp
we all of us stood
as a hippopotamus would,
surly and mannishly proud.
She listened with polite
interest, nodding and making
no gaffe. But toward tale's end
she saw walk in a friend,
the tall one they all called Giraffe.
With a smile and a yawn,
she stood and was gone,
and he gaped as he heard her
wry laugh.
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