Short Flying Squirrel Poems

Flying squirrel I’m not
It’s my arm flaps hanging down
Long sleeves now a must!...

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If you know who Rocky and Bullwinkle are
Get behind me
We are going to skip and hop
And laugh with a loud tee hee hee

We are going to find Boris and Natasha
And give them a piece of our mind
We will be stern
But we won’t be unkind

If you see a flying squirrel
And a large brown happy moose
They are Rocky and Bullwinkle
And it means they got loose...

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acorn faerie flitted out of the way of the giant tail.
in for a landing came a flying squirrel with a sail.
where did you come from? Asked Cousin Dale.
thought you were in the hoosegow, the county jail.

interested acorn faerie is enthralled. A jailbird!
she has never met one, or gotten to have a word.
she quizzes the squirrel the way cottage cheese follows a curd.
ignoring their protests, as if they have never been heard....

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hunching his back jumps
the squirrel frolicking so    
 and leaping from limb 
~
to limb scratching down
 the tree bark breaking he spies
 a rabbit in a-
~
 hole he doesn't know 
if he should go hoppity 
hip hop the rabbit
~
 hops frolicking jumps
the squirrel what a habit
 as they both danced round
~
tree trunk merrily
hippity hop rabbit and
leaps flying squirrel


8/10/22
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr 2022©...

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