An Abc Menagerie
An ABC Menagerie
“A” is for apples and animals like ants.
“B” is for baboons with bright blue balloons.
“C” is for the circus clowns calling big cats.
“D” is for a dozing doggies dreaming delights.
“E” is for elves, elephants, and enormous ears.
“F” is for fantastic fun, and fuzzy-furry friends.
“G” is for giraffes and giant gibbering goats.
“H” is for harps, harmony, and happy hopes.
“I” is for imagination, imported igloos, and ice.
“J” is for jolly jesters, jiggling jell-o, and juice.
“K” is for kettle-corn, kings, and kangaroos.
“L” is for lively lovely ladies laughing loudly.
“M” is for monkeys and magic merry-go-rounds.
“N” is for noses, necklaces, and nuts.
“O” is for oranges, opossums, and oats.
“P” is for parties, pansies, and pokes.
“Q” is for questions, quilts, quail, and queens.
“R” is for raccoons, rushing rivers, and rats.
“S” is for sugar, shiny shells, and sunshine,
“T” is for tadpoles, tough turtles, and tots.
“U” is for unicorns under umbrellas.
“V” is for violets, vines, and violins.
“W” is for windows, windsocks and west-winds.
“X” is for xylophone, Xerox and x-ray.
“Y” is for yodeling yaks yanking yellow yarn.
“Z” is for zooming zebras zipping zealously.
© August 3, 2010
Dane Smith-Johnsen
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