A Poetry Interlude
Brown Bear is glaring because s/he did not want to pose for a picture.
If No One Ever Marries Me (by Laurence Alma-Tadema)
If no-one ever marries me–
And I don’t see why they should,
For nurse says I am not pretty
And I’m seldom very good–
If no one ever marries me
I shan’t mind very much;
I shall buy a squirrel in a cage,
And a little rabbit-hutch;
And when I’m getting really old,
At twenty-eight or nine–
I shall buy a little orphan girl
And bring her up as mine.
Laurence Alma-Tadema was the daughter of the artist Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema.
This poem was published in ‘Realms of Unknown Kings’, 1897.
I’ll eat YOU before you can eat ME!
What if…
You opened a book
About dinosaurs
And one stumbled out
And another and another
And more and more pour
Until the whole place
Is bumbling and rumbling
And groaning and moaning
And snoring and roaring
And dinosauring?
What if…
You tried to push them
Back inside
But, they kept tromping
Off the pages instead?
Would you close the covers?
Bear in the City – Beware!
Not far from where I are there is a bear.
Not a brown bear or a grizzly bear.
I’ve lived close enough to the wilderness to know not to get too close to an actual living, breathing bear.
Unlike Kathy, who blogs from Lake Superior, I don’t get to see much wildlife here in the city.
My bear is greyish black with expressive glass eyes and over-looks a very busy street.
S/he is never bored as there is always so much to watch for and look at.
S/he enjoys dressing up.
The house she guards probably has children living in it as the front windows are an ever-changing art gallery.
(Music here)
The other day I met a bear,
Up in the woods a way up there!
He looked at me
(He looked at me)
I looked at him
(I looked at him)
He sized up me
(He sized up me)
I sized up him
Grizzly Bear, Grizzly Bear,
Where have you been?
Over the mountains -
Such things I’ve seen!
Grizzly Bear, Grizzly Bear,
What have you done?
Eaten blueberries
Made ripe by the sun.
Grizzly Bear, Grizzly Bear,
What have you found?
Ice-cold spring water
Deep from the ground.
Grizzly Bear, Grizzly Bear,
What do you dream?
Sweet tasting salmon
Swimming upstream.
Grizzly Bear, Grizzly Bear,
Where do you creep?
Into my dark cave
Alone, let me sleep!
If you go out in the woods today
You’re sure of a big surprise.
If you go out in the woods today
You’d better go in disguise.
For every bear that ever there was
Will gather there for certain, because
Today’s the day the teddy bears have their picnic.
The Bear Went Over the Mountain
The bear went over the mountain,
The bear went over the mountain,
The bear went over the mountain,
To see what he could see.
And what do you think he saw?
And what do you think he saw?
The other side of the mountain,
The other side of the mountain,
The other side of the mountain,
Was all that he could see.
Big paws,
Big black nose,
Stubby tail,
And growl he goes.
What is he?
Well, who knows?
He sleeps all winter
When it snows.
