Best Jumbo Poems

If only we could fly like 
those that tweet or hoot
without aid of jet or 
parachute

For I sure don't like 
wings that roar
just so that they take off 
and soar

Ah to fly without diesel 
or fuel
Oh to halt that midair 
duel

Birds they don't pollute 
the...

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MUMBO-JUMBO  

It is a hog-wash
My cube is my space
My space is colorless
Only if I am emotionless 
Our jungle was mumbo
Murmuring the word Jumbo
It is a state of nonsense that makes sense
Collectively we strike like an orange mind
Working as if there is no box
For we...

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Captain Mumblebury
He is no dumbo
A UFO pilot from
The planet Mumbo
 
A little known planet
Shaped like a spoon
Just turn left
When you get to the moon
 
Mumblebury is
The captain of cool
In his UFO ship
Taking children to school
 
World famous he is
On the planet Mumbo
Though he actually lives
On...

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.....Mommy walks and Jamie toddles inside the BIGGEST plane. 
Jamie thought he was inside its belly. The storm roars outside. 
The thunder is loud inside the metal beastie. They sit. Lightening flashes. 
Jamie screams “No!” The plane swallows them like Pinocchio in the whale! 
Jamie...

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Does anyone know how Jumbo The Elephant died?
Hit by a freight train, succumbed quickly, no dry eyes
Poor thing had no chance
His soul made a ghost dance
People around reacted with sadness, quietly cried...

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It’s mumbo jumbo,
the language of confusion.
Nonsensical words
that communicate nothing.
They have no value at all.
...

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the journey can be worth more than the destination
but maybe seeing what it’s worth first isn’t worth it if you’re already patient
I’m already where I’ve been, and I will be where I’m going
so will what is on that path effect me if I did or...

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A wino looked at me and spout,
Mumbo-jumbo from his mouth!

“Wood and stone; 
Flesh and bone,
Sand and clay; 
Steel and hay,
Moon and sun; 
Milk and bun,
Glass and salt; 
Hops and malt,
Needle and thread; 
Hand and head,
Rain and fog;
Spawn and frog,
Chicken and egg;
Lock and peg,
Tooth and root;
Sock...

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Wrenched from bushland
To London Zoo, they labelled you
“Jumbo” – fed you by hand.
 
African Wonder! You were feted,
Reduced to spectacle,
Humorous vehicle,
And otherwise humiliated.
 
Submissiveness turned to rage;
Branded dangerous;
A threat to all of us! –
And so condemned to Barnum’s cage.
 
Now your sad name’s applied
To all...

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New York’s mayor wants to ban
The sale of jumbo drinks.
This will cure obesity,
At least that’s what he thinks.

Those who guzzle sweet iced tea
Or soda by the gallons
Never thought they’d have to hide
From Mayor Bloomberg’s talons.

It’s a bit Big Brotherish,
For putting into law
A bill to limit...

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Last night the earth trembled when an elephant
went grumbling down the plain
its passing sound resembled 
the softly insistent rumbling of  a distant train

Hearing my tale others blame me 
for outlandish rumors and such
Fearing a tall stories tail I flee
an elephants tall but not that...

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Yours truly an unfortunate hostage
within *****sapien zoo
looking for unwitting subject(s) to woo,
and albeit impossible mission) to free me,
where within human bondage I stew
more specifically mine personally
custom designed invisible prison self made,
thus wishing to don persona
of such an éminence grise
as Jawaharlal Nehru,
and trumpet courteous helloo
before...

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I have come to say
That there’s been days
When I been deeply in pain
When the subject has been the same 
But now I’m 18 
And I have seen 
The angry gray
The happy mood of May
The upsetting shade of blue
But some trends aren’t new
I have been dismayed
I...

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Hit
and run
elephant
chasing me now.
How fast can an angry elephant run?...

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Come play mumbo jumbo mumblety peg,
To see who goes first, we spin a raw egg.
Come be a sport.
Free beer by the quart.
We’ll let you keep a finger and maybe a leg....

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