garter gathering

[ConcinusMan]

Awesome stuff people. Not only are you OK in my book because you love garter snakes, but jeez, you're talented too?

[Mommy2many]

John,

What can I say?
Another awesome verse from John...

The garters, they have brought us all
To gather near and from afar
We choose to raise, to feed and breed
These serpents for which we have a need

We discuss their actions and their ills
And in our children we've instilled
The love of serpents, hot and cold
The warnings of, they've all been told

To hold close and near; within your heart
To always keep, your active part
To stay the course, right or wrong
To keep our garters, always strong

This love we have
This need and ache
It's what bring us close
The Garter Snake


Threw this together...

[PINJOHN]

great stuff Le Ann i know when i have enjoyed a rhyme or poem because when im reading it i keep saying to my self i wish i had thought of that line or that expression and that is exactly what i was thinking while reading your new offering.
pass all the ironing and washing over to that daughter of yours and it will give you lots of time to send us much more verse

[Mommy2many]

Thanks, John!

I really enjoy this thread, didn't know I had this stuff in there...
I always enjoy your verse, so I'm waiting on the next!

[PINJOHN]

while doodling this rhyme at home i reminded my wife that it was her turn to make the coffee,she flatly refused to take her turn so i warned her if she did not comply forthwith i would put her into my next poem in a non too complementary light, she said i wouldn't dare, read on see if she's right

no contest

when i started out in reptiles
i made a big mistake
I disregarded, research
into just which type of snake

i started with a kingsnake
in fact i purchased two
what a cracking start, i thought
on my private reptile zoo
the female never shied from food
and i watched her body swell
she wolfed down every rat i gave
and she !eeer! ate her mate as well

so next i bought a rat snake
and back she went with me
they said, that she was gentle
and i thought, i was home free
i placed her in her viv last march
and she headed, for her lair
i haven't seen her once, since then
do you think, that she's still there ?

i decided on a python then
hoping he would be the one
gentle slow, and well behaved
with burnished skin, that shone
with all these marvellous, attributes
it made him so attractive
but the down side,[and there's always one]
he wasn't very active
he would stir himself, just once a week
when he got his big fat rabbit
he would gulp it down, align his jaw
and sleep [as was his habit]
he would lay up in his corner
his body curled in loops
his only contribution
his huge black smelly poops
i couldn't hide, this odour
and so, it wasn't long
before my wife picked up on it
phew! such a pungent pong
and when, i heard her wailing voice
my courage, simply fled
"get that snake out, of my house"
"or you'll be gone instead"

the list was long,of snakes i tried
to long for me to tell
so just two more i will relate
with one, the snake from hell

the next one was a racer
he was nervous thin and fast
he wouldn't settle, in his viv
till he escaped' at last
absconding from my house, it seems
was chief amongst,his aims
he took off, as if in practise
for the next Olympic games

then last i tried a mamba
of the long and greeny type
when people said they're dangerous
i would disregard that hype
i got him home, and then at last
with doubts, i was assailed
his evil eye, fixed firm on me
my knees they, almost quailed
i pulled my self together
stood tall as i could be
after thirty years of marriage
there's not much frightens me
my partners, rough exterior
would make Attila run
my friends all call her pit bull
cos she bites big dogs for fun
her galloping alopecia
is hidden by her rash
there's times she'd look quite fetching
if it weren't for her moustache

its seldom you get certainties
as you travel through this life
but if the mamba, and my partner meet
get your money on the wife
the last few lines, i wrote were cruel
they were far from philanthropic
but i started out to talk of snakes
so I'll now get back on topic

when i walked in to, my reptile room
he'd escaped his flimsy cage
with his black eyes,he just stared at me
i could feel his hate and rage
so i took off like a cheetah
and the snake he followed fast
he chased me round, and round the house
my endurance couldn't last
his intention was to corner me
and there to deal me death
he pursued me like a psychopath
spaced out on crystal meth
when i ran into my garage
with my throat and lungs on fire
the mamba missed his lunge at me
but he got my cars front tyre
yes his teeth sank in, so very deep
and the air ran up each fang
then the mamba swelled up like a balloon
and exploded with a bang

there's a salutary warning here
and to pass it on I'm keen
you should only keep one kind of snake
you know which one I mean

[Mommy2many]

Most excellent!

[gregmonsta]

Epic

[PINJOHN]

no taxi work today car broke down, its given me a little time to go through some threads and give them a little slant

the garter snake genome is complex
but anything goes it would seem
if melanistic X amel make coffee
what do you cross to get cream


said rhea i think on the whole
that my snake doesn't like rock an roll
when she picks up that sound
she just throws herself round
i will have to try country or soul




Is the maritime merely an eastern ?
was discussed by state big wigs and vets
If the big wigs ordain
they're exactly the same
then hundreds face losing their pets



a san fran was cruising the district
and finding a mate was his aim
he felt so bereft
as there's so few that's left
but he'd keep up his search
just the same


when a garter discovered my fish pond
it was filled with shubunkin and blenny
the result of his find was for me most unkind
when i looked i just couldn't find any


Im a two headed garter albino
in this world there are none quite the same
i'm growing and how
as i eat,twice the chow
but a headache means double the pain

[guidofatherof5]

Once again I must say awesome.

[Mommy2many]

Garter genomes are quite varied
Dissecting them makes one quite harried
We've put alot of thought
Into what we ought and ought not
Our decisions should make some of us wary

The sound of our music can please
To our snakes it may possibly peeve
Rock & Roll
Country or Soul
We need something that can appease

The question of Maritimes weighs heavy
Upon the minds of the many
To decide should they or not
An Eastern or what
That is what makes them the gravy

San Francisco snakes need mates
Someone to whom they associate
A Radix won't do
Nor a Western or two
Must be one who relates

Garters and fish go hand in hand
A pond or a puddle, whatever
The fish look the same
They're popular game
And it all is the same in the end

Albinos are rare, that we can say
Two headed are rarer even today
An appetite twice
Double the mice
Leaves us with much that we crave

Our forum holds many Old and Wise Snakes
Subadults, First Sheds and Welcomes it makes
Keep coming around
Advice is abound
And Friendship and Greetings are all that it takes

To state, we all love the serpent
The garter, of which we hold dear
Granites and Hypos
Pastels and Albinos
To our hearts, we hold them near