Scrappy

  
   	      Scrappy, pugnacious
                  a fighter from birth

              The wee lad felled giants
                 of super-sized girth  

              Spectators cheered him on
                 there was no dearth

              of the bubbly downed afterward
                 and good-natured mirth  

              They say, ‘The Bigger They Are, the Harder they Fall'
                 of those who stand tall ‘n rigid, not flexible at all 

               Ya gotta bend with the wind and go with the flow
                 ‘cos if you stand there stock upright
                                                         ~ Down you will go
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Crandall Avatar
May 19, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Good one - hurray for the little guy! Sounds like a great fighter! I heard that an oak falls in a storm, but a reed survives by bending.
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