(Everyday I have struggled to come up with a somewhat sense-making explanation for this situation. Today I give up.)
Leila
Pain in the Asp by Dame Daisy
i
A wise Asp told me to never trust Lambs
“They pull wool over the truth like lil tams”
When you can’t get a good word from a Snake
You are the foulest natural mistake
ii
It offendly offends the Moving Hoof
To waste her lines on silly goofly goofs
Whilst bacteria, germs, fleas roust in snout
Yet are more attractive to write about
And The Lambs Say…
i
Tut tut Goatess in a childish huff
We are well learned in useless stuff
Yo Mama was as scary as a scream
Daddy’s brain boiled in Baily’s stout creme
ii
You insult and cajole Lambs on the whole
You dig into our ire like a Vole
Lo! Moving Hoof you are a churlish sort
You keep coming back like a common wart
Bonus Song:
The Lambystan Anthem (to the tune of Christmas Tree O Christmas Tree)
O Lambystan O Lambystan
Your warriors are brave and true
O Lambystan O Lambystan
They will conquer and enslave you
Throughout the night we will lead the fight
And be great woolly winners by dawn’s light
O Lambystan O Lambystan
We will kick your ass like no one can!
Saragun Springs 
A wonderfully corny Lambystan anthem!
I was captured by the striking header photo. Do you know the back-story? And did the eagle once have a companion, evidenced by the near-by 3 stumps? bw mick
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Hi Mick
That Eagle is atop of the so-called Caretaker’s Cottage inside Ivy Green Cemetery in the old Charleston district of Bremerton, Washington. Why it is up there is a mystery. Someone told me that it was off a flag pole another says it is an old car ornament. It has been up there for nearly a hundred years (according to photos from the 1930’s) so my guess is the mystery will never be solved.
We have lots of Bald Eagles around here, but I can never get a good snap because they fly extremely high.
Thank you!
Leila
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Leila
These new choruses, songs, and verses of the Moving Hoof and the lovely lambs make a third with “Rocky Raccoon” by The Beatles and the poems Lewis Carroll composed in order to adorn his own fiction (and that are just as good as the fiction itself and sometimes better).
Your verse is wildly original, but as I’ve said before, it also conjures up (without being overly influenced by, and this is also a huge part of its originality) other great writings, situating it in a kind of eternal dialogue which is Literature with a capital L.
Your ability with The Rhyme never ceases to amaze, also.
You show how original rhymes (but only original ones) can elevate language back into the highest place where it’s supposed to be at its best, even in this age of people like the (so-called) President who never stop talking! (saying nothing coherent endlessly, endlessly, and more endlessly (seemingly, although everything has an end eventually)……)
Never has there been an age with so many words saying so little. (And by that I mean the last three hundred years.)
But your words rise above the fray because no one else writes like you do, and what a rarity that is!
Dale
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Hello Dale
I thankily thank you! See, the adverb is as catchy as TB.
A few years ago I chose to avoid all cliches. I find using them the same as saying yes to everything a keyboard program suggests.
You are right. Words are everywhere, but they are empty cosmic buzzwords that have no real meaning. I do hope people will settle down someday. If not Nature might pull the plug. As smug as some of us are, we are still as much subjects to a star eight light minutes away as were the Dinosaurs.
Thanks again!
Leila
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Awesomely cool image, too! The eagle represents the eagle…
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I said to the lamb
I eat ham
No need to wail
I will neither eat you nor pull your tail
I will eat pies
But I won’t pull the wool over your eyes
It’s ufortunate to say
I could go on like this all day
Before you say don’t
I won’t
MM
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