(Light Verse — More Poetry with Movie Quotes)
There was once a circus elephant,
Who, although it wasn’t relevant
To his role in circus artistry,
Had a penchant, quite, for poetry,
But then, all his fellow pachyderms
Thought his hobby was a wacky yearn,
For from Mumbai unto Nairobi,
There was ne’er a poet wannabe,
Of elephant kind, in any case.
(That silliness just for human race.)
But he could not cessate his rhyming,
Nor stop his sense of comic timing,
So when one bellowed in frustration,
In his pachyderm protestation,
“Young sir! No more rhymes now! I mean it!”
‘Quipped, “Anybody want a peanut?”
© Susan Joy Clark 2021
Okay, I think I quite lost my brain with this one, but it was fun. I’m not sure if this is inspired by Ogden Nash or W.S. Gilbert, but it is, evidently, some silliness out of my own brain. dVerse recently had a challenge for poetry that included famous movie quotes. This line, “No more rhymes now! I mean it!” which was followed by “Anybody want a peanut?” from The Princess Bride immediately jumped into my brain, but then I realized, to follow the rules, we had to pick one of several quotes that were selected in advance. So, I did a poetic tribute to Back to the Future, but I thought I’d go back and see what I could do with this one. It’s kind of an interesting quote to work with, because it’s a bit of poetry itself, but I think I worked it into an entirely different context than the movie.
And for some baby elephant cuteness …