Kissing Frogs!

KISSING FROGS!

Oh! How I needed this book when I was grassy green!

A frog is better than nothing when you fancy being a Queen!

At least a frog could prove that you really had what it took!

But, oh, it would have been helpful to have owned this little book!

No-one minds kissing lots of frogs if a Prince is on his way,

But kissing frogs and frogs and frogs , day after day after day........

Not that I was promiscuous! But I was out to prove

That my still-blossoming sex-appeal was really in the groove!

('The groove!' Oh dear, a by-gone phrase is giving the game away.

Yes, as I've heard the witty declare, 'I wasn't born yesterday!')

How awful if not even 'frogs' asked one to purse ones lips!

To be rejected by a frog would mean one had had ones chips!

Nobody turned into a 'Prince', though I tried time and again.
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Luckily, between 'Princes' and 'frogs' one can find some very nice men!

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YELLOW FELLOW!

My word!

Big Bird!

Max and Blake!

Double take!

We had to stop

Outside the shop.

Nice fellow!

Very yellow.

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P.S. Please visit  http://rinklyrimes.blogspot.com/2011/02/fanfare.html  for something extra!

Stripes!

STRIPES!

I do admire lateral thinking!

Thinking 'outside the box'!

Giving the unsuspecting

Giggles and, maybe, shocks!

Skin, as we know, gets blotchy,

There are pimples and polka-dots!

But stripes are something novel;

More original than spots!

This cover really intrigues me!

The girl is in dire straits.

And, clearly, the situation

Is something that she hates!

There must be an element of magic.

Does it involve the cup?

She looks dubious about the contents;

But will she drink it up?

The book must be written for children;

Adults are such a bore;

But any childish reader

Must wonder what's in store.

A design that's so intriguing

Has passed the book-cover test;

We long to take a peep inside.

Does the story pass the test?

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MULTI MIX!

It's very multicultural in Oz

As you'll notice if you visit us because

The Hottentots and Finns

Have such very different skins!

It's not the British off-shoot it once was.
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As for me, of course, I'm Pommy through and through!

I must salute the old Red White and Blue!

But I still enjoy society

Which celebrates variety

As these two market stalls appear to do!

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Injuries!

INJURIES!

The British have 'stiff upper lips'; they're good at fortitude.

They treat decapitation as a little interlude!
See how this jolly fellow smiles! He's definitely British!
The more he's pierced and knifed and cut the more he's growing skittish!

His foot's on fire! He's lost both legs! And his arms aren't too secure!

As for his head, it's been attacked by something like a skewer!

I see he's hanging by the neck! No wonder he's kaput!

His insides seem to be falling out! And a nail has pierced his foot!
I see there are 'illustrations'! I bet they're pretty gory!
'Read all about it!' Yes, indeed!
It's the gaping-inside story!
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MUST YOU?

When did all this kissing start

(Of which I don't want any part)?

When did the stern and steady Brits

Start these kissy-kissy fits?

When was it that this double-kissing

Filled a void we'd not been missing.

I like my friends, I'm even fond,

But kissy-kiss goes quite beyond

All that's required of any greeting!

Oh the joy of a smiling meeting!

Half the time they kiss the air

Or get a mouthful of my hair!

When I'm approached by pouting lips,

Something inside me sort of flips!

I back away (though it's not polite)

While uttering welcomes of delight!

Hypocrisy is my undoing

When it comes to all this friendly 'wooing'.

Not brave enough to say 'Get off!'

I give a little nervous cough,

Pretend I'm otherwise engaged,

And no doubt leave the 'friend' enraged.

The French have always kissed like this;

They invented the kissy-kiss.

They're used to offering 'the other cheek'

But I feel quite a sense of pique

When good old Brits get Frenchified

And kissy-kiss from side to side.

Next time,(my strategy is planned....),

I'm going to damn well shake your hand!

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Controversy Indeed!

FASCINATING BOOK COVERS
http://workofthepoet.blogspot.com/2010/12/fascinating-book-covers_23.html

CONTROVERSY INDEED!

Alberta's as remote from me as I'm remote from it! 

And the state of its education doesn't worry me a bit!

I've enough worries here in Oz to occupy my mind!

And what's the betting the worries 'there' are of a similar kind?

Life's full of controversy, whatever the hemisphere!

Alberta has day-care problems? Guess what we have here!

One problem that I've heard-of is the very poor state of pay

Of the tireless day-care workers who manage the kids all day!

(No! Don't write and elucidate! I'll take it all as read!)

I'll tell you my reason for writing this commentary instead.

Why are the children upside-down? Poor old, cold Alberta!

Are the children treated with an orientation converter?

I have a theory.... I think they're floating upside-down because

They're passing some sort of test to prove they could live in the land of Oz!

For, in Australia, as you know, we all live like that!

Where Albertians wear their shoes we tend to wear a hat!

No wonder it's controversial! I must read and discover

If the contents of the book live up to its quirky cover!

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PRAYER

(An Acrostic)

'Put your hands together'
Religious people say.
'Ask for anything you want;
Your God will find a way.
Everything is in his hands.
Relax! He will take care.

Every Believer understands

God is everywhere.'
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