garter gathering

[PINJOHN]

dont own a camera, couldn't enter the contest so i threw this together
perhaps it might encourage some better efforts


at a garter snake convention,
all the snakes were sitting bored,
when all at once a radix voice,
piped up amongst the hoard,
I say we have a contest,
just to keep us all awake,
to decide which one amongst us,
is the most attractive snake,
as its my idea,
on this i will not budge,
i recommend that steve gilfillan,
is the arbitration judge,
silence hit the convention hall,
as all the snakes went mute,
steves judging was as welcome,
as a fart in a diving suit,
a checkered from the back spoke up,
its nature that ordains,
you radix just aren,t beautiful,
it why your known as plains,
and then a tetrataenia asked,
speaking with a hiss,
can there be another skin,
as colour full as this,
at over thirty seven inches,
we,d not be classed a runt,
and our blue and orange racing stripes,
put us far far out in front,
the san frans boast was halted,
as a butlers took the floor,
its a waste of time you entering,
i really must demure,
the reasons for objection are simple and succinct,
before the contests over your sure to be extinct,
and then spoke up sirtalis,
I should really take the prize,
if only for my thick dark bands,
and matching large black eyes,
dont make me laugh concinnus said,
or my sides begin to ache,
take one look in the mirror pal,
your such a common snake,
Hark at you sirtalis spat back,
your quick with taunts and mocks,
with those large red spots all over you,
have you caught the chicken pox,
so thick and fast the insults flew,
as the species made their case,
as to just who was the prettiest,
in all the serpent race,
dont offer your opinion,
if you do you,ll get no thanks,
it was vanity that caused the split,
in the proud thamnphis ranks

[guidofatherof5]

Now that was a nice read.
Thanks for taking the time to compose it.

[gregmonsta]

Loved every line of that

[Mix]

Love it!

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

"the reasons for objection are simple and succinct,
before the contests over your sure to be extinct"



lol!!!!!!

[Mommy2many]

Maybe vanity, the sirtalis states,
That splits our ranks among the snakes,
But Easterns are the best by far
For their colours are of you all
Their demeanors are sweet and fair
Their hardiness cannot compare
If I should want a snake to love
Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis, there’s none above

[Odie]

Ordinoides don't even try
Your so ordinary Lewis & Clark
saw this on the fly

[EasternGirl]

Pinjon...that was amazing! Very witty and well written. I really enjoyed ready that.

[PINJOHN]

thank you for your comments
that you took the time was great
but only two replied in verse
a dam, poor return rate
to give you more encouragement
iv penned another rhyme
and you can do it too, you know
if you just give, it some time
when you read my contribution
full of verse and rhyme and pun
its not meant to offend you know
its just a bit of fun.




two very large constrictors
were in the public view
as they lay talking, side by side
in a cold Alaska zoo
said the boa to the python
while we both lay here, at rest
lets slake this bloody tedium
with a biggest prey contest
i,ll start off the python said
from my days spent in the wild
i once ate, a pangolin,
his wife, and then his child
thats nothing scoffed the boa, to him
of story's iv no lack,
i once caught an aardvark, so
that ant bear wont be back
fuming at the boa,s retort
the python up his game
this boa, he is a wily snake
i,ll beat him just the same
that time i caught an antelope
while hunting in the Congo
he went down like an oyster
there's nothing tastes like bongo
said the boa thats small potatoes
on the list of things iv eaten
when i tell you of my next big meal
you,l see iv got you beaten
i once grabbed a donkey
when i saw him try to pass
i swallowed him entirely
from his nose down to his ***
the taste of that poor equine
still makes my taste buds drool
i,d like to have that meal again
a pony or a mule

the boids continued arguing
with exaggeration rife
there would have to be a winner soon
to avert the looming strife
then the python took his best shot
and he chuckled with a hiss
i,ll tell my tallest story
there's no way he,ll beat this
the time i grabbed a rhino he led a merry dance
but i got my coils around him
he knew he stood no chance

so down he went ,on passed my tum
and his horn it came to rest
sticking out from my lower parts
the ladies were impressed

so the boa he threw his hands up
metaphoric le of course
there's no way i can live with that
your an eating tour de force

i have just one question for you
if you,ll , just share with me
is there any upper limit to your, jaw capacity

yes my stretchy skin has a breaking point
and the answer leaves me flat
when they shout palin for president

even i Cant swallow THAT

[guidofatherof5]

I would like to respond to astound,
but feel so dumbfound.
The words are to arduous,
for this one who is brainless.
I shall bow out to those with talent,
and go feed my vagrant.(I couldn't make vagrans work)