garter gathering

[Mommy2many]

Awesome poem about the cobra from New York...


Thr Bronx Zoo is what I call home
From there is where I shall roam
A trip thru the city
No money, what a pity
Perhaps I will use pheremones

A facebook account I now have
A twitter account has my back
I post on them hourly
The news was made daily
But now they've all been removed

The Lady in the Harbour I visited
To a pizza place I have slithered
Apartments I've seen
There's none that I'm keen
I'm a snake with standards it seems

They all looked for me in the city
I'm sure I've kept them quite busy
In my home I'm secure
Within my lair, I am sure
They've got themselves all in a tizzy

My home is the zoo, quite a space
Where humans and the like will escape
I am quite, so to speak, well cared for
And my home is larger than yours
So the Bronx is where it takes place!

[PINJOHN]

great stuff Le Ann, I only knew about this little hooded Houdini through Richards reports in one of the threads, us being a snake forum i thought it might have stir d more interest, hopefully someone will report it when he gets his new name

[PINJOHN]

After reading all the material you pointed me to Steve i was even more horrified if thats possible. really don't want to be preachey but it is time people said no to rattlesnake roundups.
i have put the following verse together which i hope gets the point over but without hectoring anybody[any body that is except the morons who run these occasions]

NO TO RATTLESNAKE ROUNDUPS

We mourn the passenger pigeon
now that it no longer flies
blasted in their millions
from those sunny cloudless skies
no voice to stop their slaughter
or avert their final fate
but we all bemoan their passing
yes now that its to late
so too the mighty buffalo
in his countless numbers teemed
the monarch of the prairie lands
or at least thats how it seemed
they shot him down and took his hide
then shipped them all back east
with scant consideration
to the future of the beast
at last,they stopped the killing
when their blood lust was all done
bones of countless bison
were left bleaching in the sun
the story's really much the same
for the great white egret bird
ravaged by mans cruelty
it's a fate it also shared
they were blasted to oblivion
as on their nests they sat
killed for just one feather
to adorn a lady's hat.

you may smile at the absurdity
of my bombastic blast
thinking "those things are irrelevant
it happened in the past
the modern world has now moved on
with every western nation
pledged, to protect its fauna
with the watchword CONSERVATION"
friends, if i make this promise
from my rantings to desist
explain, why rattlesnake roundups
are allowed to still exist
in the name of entertainment
they commit the vilest acts
spouting pseudoscience
and presenting it as facts
they'll take a western diamondback
and then affect a change
they turn him into trinkets
of a wide and varied range
they offer you some cowboy boots
a wallet or a belt
made, i am afraid to say
from this poor creatures pelt
just what kind of people
attend this nightmare zoo
it's bad enough they come themselves
but they bring their children too
these parents would revile me
would consider me a louse
suggesting that their next fun day
is the local slaughter house
but for me theres little difference
if any parent should
show their kids its fun to laugh
at some poor creatures blood.

and to all those western rednecks
if they'll take advice from me
we much prefer our snake skin
alive and roaming free

[guidofatherof5]

Very nice.

[BLUESIRTALIS]

That's a nice poem!

[PINJOHN]

when bin laden sat down to his breakfast
he should really have eaten it fast
for that knock on the door was Obama
now justice has caught up at last.


to paradise went osma bin laden
after losing his ten year, chase
he hoped to meet his, forty virgins
but the gate was shut hard in his face.

[Mommy2many]

I think you nailed it.

[Didymus20X6]

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)

You know what would be a good name for a vagrans? Charlie Chaplain.

[PINJOHN]

You know what would be a good name for a vagrans? Charlie Chaplain.

yep but it still wont rhyme with talent

[PINJOHN]

A FEW THOUGHTS TO HELP US OVER THE COMING SEASON,

brumation

days grow short with suns lost zest
and land prepares for snowy vest
it's then our friends will take their rest
the garter folk lament
no shining light to chase the gloom
where dark and dismal shadows loom
and silence clouds my reptile room
the garter folk lament
now annual tasks will call my hand
with some jobs vital, others bland
while i wish for spring,to warm the land
the garter folk lament
and as we wait, for summer cheer
our friends imagined,with us here
hoping through the glass,their faces peer
the garter folk lament
while winter crawls, its somnolent tread
our yearning screams,with patience dead
and we hunger for the days ahead
the garter folk lament
then at the height of our doleful leaning
our friends awake, their vigour streaming
to give back our lives, its point and meaning
the garter folk lament
such joy to hear the birds in song
our snakes returned so fit and strong
our lives to share all summer long
NO MORE GARTER FOLK LAMENT