The Golden Tooth
Every once and a while I try my hand at rhyming poetry, and sometimes even kids poetry, Dr. Seuss like. In a Random Twitter poem I did for March 17th 2009, my poem consisted of 6 words (in blue) provided by the following people on twitter:
@wizzardsblog(dentist), @SurfCityJay(dumbfounded), @lejonprime(Verve), @BlazingMinds(lipstick)
@Oneunder2001(exhausted), @jollything(Infinity)
The Golden Tooth
A confounded mystery that happened down south
When a golden tooth grew in an old womans mouth
Arriving at the dentist one hot summer day
A lady arrived with hair of silver and gray
She showed up and smiled, her lipstick was red
A strange looking tooth made of gold and not lead
It appeared to be natural and was well rounded
It had the dentist completely dumbfounded
Offering to extract it, he would pay her some money
The lady agreed and found it all quite funny
The dentist first tried pulling the tooth without a budge
Ending up exhausted as if he had taken a trudge
After a few more tries he prayed to the holy trinity
That extracting the tooth would not take infinity
The tooth however did indeed become loose
The dentist knew he would soon get his goose
With a verve and some confidence he tried again
He would give it one final try and it would not be in vain
The tooth finally popped out and landed on his hand
It appeared solid pure gold and the sight was quite grand
Nobody knows even to this very day
What made a gold tooth grow in that way
-Poem by Dragon Blogger
lol... Hi dragonblogger
This is like the fairy tales we read as kids....
Enjoyed reading your poem... Once in a while such light hearted poems are a big relief...
Thanks for a good read.
Thanks
Sometimes I enjoy writing light hearted poetry and this was mean't to be like an Aesop fable type
Great, and not just for children
You should do rhyming more often: you are very good at it.
The couplets I enjoyed the most:
It appeared to be natural and was well rounded
It had the dentist completely dumbfounded
The dentist first tried pulling the tooth without a budge
Ending up exhausted as if he had taken a trudge
After a few more tries he prayed to the holy trinity
That extracting the tooth would not take infinity
The tooth however did indeed become loose
The dentist knew he would soon get his goose
doubled
doubled response
Thanks
It really was a fun poem to write, it makes me smile when I read it.
It's a very clever poem
The theme of the gold tooth fits in with children's fables...very well...and all children enjoy funny twists in lines.
Was a fun one
This was a fun one to write, I also help my son write a few poems and post them on my blog. He wrote 2 when he was 5 and one last week when he turned 6.