A Big Frog and a Little Frog Seek a Lily Pad
(a rhyming fable in haiku syllable count)
In a little pond
a big frog and a small frog
both sit on a log.
That log is then seen
by a little boy at play
who takes it away.
Left without their log,
both frogs spy a lily pad;
the big frog is bad. . .
Though the pad is small -
onto it the big frog hops.
The small pad drops!
Into the small pond
disappears the little pad.
The big frog gets sad.
He just swims away.
Now the small frog seeks a pad.
He is hopping mad!
From one lily pad
to another goes that frog
who has lost his log.
Never giving up,
the little frog starts to think. . .
Which pad will not sink?
Small ones are no good.
They sink like the Titanic.
I need gigantic!
Having found one large,
now the frog itty bitty
is sitting pretty!
And the moral is “Better to be a small frog rather than a big frog in a little pond” Or “Don’t get sad, get hopping mad!”
For the children's Fable Contest of Carol Eastman
Copyright © Andrea Dietrich | Year Posted 2012
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