One on the Nose



CARRY ON TUESDAY
http://carryontuesdayprompt.blogspot.com/2011/06/carry-on-tuesday-110.html
asks us to use this phrase from Muhammad Ali
'Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.'

ONE ON THE NOSE

Since  am not Muhammad Ali

I sting like a butterfly and float like a bee!

Uncoordinated! That's my story;

Definitely never, never bound for glory.

I fly like an elephant and swim like a pig!

I can't even do an Irish Jig.

I dance like a cuttlefish and leap like a worm.

I'm old and battered and quite infirm.

I throw like a snake and jump like a mole

And golf balls never end up in the hole.

But I'm very, very, very good at just being me.

That's one on the nose for Muhammad Ali!
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SENTINEL

The small boats come, the small boats go;
Day after day, now to, now fro.
The children leap and prance and play,
Here in the shallows every day.
The fish, unseen, swim slow and fast;
The pelicans float proudly past.
The birds swoop swiftly through the sky;
The clouds go scudding way up high.
Only the tree, impassive, grand,
Stands still, locked fast into the land.
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