Terry Flood Poet Rhyme

Not Necessarily Green

Sausage and custard and ice cream with mustard
Chocolate coated Kentucky Fried Bustard
Whipped cream with mushrooms or frogspawn on toast
These are the foods that an ogre likes most

Volcanic craters and baths full of gators
A pantry thats choc full of gagged and bound waiters
sleeping on bones in a pterosaurs nest
These are the places an ogre likes best

Eyeballs and elbows, the odd severed nose
Ankles and legs and a number of toes
Earlobes and kidneys and hearts to dissect
Things that an ogre just loves to collect

Teeth that are bleeding and eyes that are red
Skin like the skin of somebody that’s dead
One missing ear and a hole in the throat
And chomping raw meat from the leg of a goat

So now that you have him laid clear in your head
The image you see is of someone to dread
For sometimes the truth is a pain in the neck
And ogres in real life are nothing like Shrek

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Deb M May 12, 2023 at 5:29 AM Hey Terry….you have created quite a gross creature here….l think l know him!!! hehe…Seriously….a great, entertaining fun poem! Love it! Debx

Gershon Wolf May 11, 2023 at 6:49 PM Absolutely sensational, Terry! Pure fun! ... You must be a gas to be around on Halloween. (I'll bring the beans OK?! ~ blazing saddles).

Ilene Bauer May 11, 2023 at 1:45 PM this is so amazingly wonderful i don't have words to express it! pure delight, terry, and hilariously funny. bravo! Terry Flood May 11, 2023 at 2:25 PM Strange isn’t it? You start with a random nonsense line, not knowing where to take it and it gradually develops into something like this. I knew I liked it but I’m astounded at how much you all love it and I’m truly grateful for your high praise (and everyone else’s). Thanks muchly. Terry

Lin Lane May 11, 2023 at 10:50 AM What a nasty creature you've created, Terry. A ghastly beast! I'll have no problem staying out of a volcano's crater, but I will have to build up a bit of courage to open my pantry door. Your imagination was on overload...this is amazing! Lin Lane May 11, 2023 at 11:09 AM I'm sure she does, Terry. Maybe there's a female version of Fiona that loves him too. Terry Flood May 11, 2023 at 11:07 AM I’m sure his mother loves him, Lin. Glad you enjoyed. Terry

Jan Allison May 11, 2023 at 5:23 AM OMG Terry this is absolutely fantastic, I'm creased up reading it lol. I too have done a parody of my favourite things but the theme is so so different - it will be included in the book I'm working on:-) hugs jan xx Terry Flood May 11, 2023 at 11:15 AM Thanks, Jan. As I wrote this the tune was in my head but it never really hit me that it was that tune. Glad you enjoyed my ‘absolutely fantastic’ tale ;-)

Daniel Turner May 10, 2023 at 6:19 PM With one eye and a one track mind! Love it, Terry! The fact is, we're all ogres:) Terry Flood May 11, 2023 at 11:17 AM You might well be right, Daniel. ;-)

Ann Peck May 10, 2023 at 5:08 PM Bravo, Terry! I could sing your poem right along. (raindrops on roses and mittens on kittens...) However, Your take has already colored the other one. It's too funny! Terry Flood May 11, 2023 at 11:24 AM Thank you, Ann and thanks for enlightening me as to the tune that was in my head as I wrote. Terry