Best Axolotl Poems
I Want To Throttle That Darned Axolotl!I have a friend called Bob Beaubobble
who trains unusual pets to juggle
assorted items frequently fumbled
by freakish fish or octibumbles
This hobby made him mucha dinero
which he put in the bank ‘with interest’ to grow
but while he was filling in all of the forms
One creature...
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Categories:
axolotl, funny, on work and
Form:
Rhyme
The AxolotlEnglish version by Liviu Martinescu
- a solo nijuin renku -
waves covered in wind
in our blood the salt of the sea
is seeking the shore
autumn clouds scattered
by viola d'amore
insatiably drinking in
the image of those conches
lurking amongst barren poplars
devious ways in
a square black against white
stuck between word and...
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Categories:
axolotl, inspirational,
Form:
Free verse
AxolotlI brought home an axolotl
In a thin-necked ketchup bottle
Then I could never get the damned thing out.
I broke up with the mute Egyptian
Found his code was a crude encryption
Read the story of the life of a silent lout.
Waddlin' toddlin' down the track
End of the line...
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Categories:
axolotl, animal, food, humorous, relationship,
Form:
Rhyme