LOUNGING BY THE FIRE
The candle in the fireplace
Is melting like a cube of ice.
And sipping on the molten wax,
The yellow man in yellow slacks,
Keeps grinning as he drinks his fill
While there beside him Jelly Jill
Is sitting on a red hot coal
Enjoying hers in a golden bowl.
When down the chimney comes the rain,
A lightning rod and a weather vane,
A cloud, a whirlwind and a boat
And at the helm is Quotable Goat
Reciting William Shakespeare's best,
A sash of green across his chest.
He leaps from boat to piano keys
And starts to play in Japanese
Until the notes that no one knows
Like candles burning decompose
And all the guests swim off to beds
With paddle feet and feathered heads.
D. Edgar Lamp
www.TheDailyPoem.org
Rhyming Couplets
Sunday, November 28, 2010
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