Friday, 31 August 2012

As Sure as Eggs is Eggs!

(Samuel Peralta in Form for All at dVerse Poets sets us the task of writing a tritina. Do follow the link to see what it is all about.) 
We found it near the nursing home
a fungus like the yolk of egg -
and quite close by, a broken shell.

The idea came first from the shell:
we took it and the fungus home
and left them out to look like egg.

Oh, no! My carpet! Ruined! Egg!
They'd done their jobs, fungus and shell,
as mother's cries wailed through our home.

(We flash-cleaned home of egg and shell!)
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31 comments:

  1. rch31 August 2012 at 10:10

    Haha, boys will be boys, your poor mom almost 'cracked' up over it. ;-)

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  2. Elephant's Child31 August 2012 at 10:11

    A truly inspired practical joke, attacking the recipient where she lived (in both senses of the phrase).

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  3. Brian Miller31 August 2012 at 11:16

    haha bet you still got in trouble...but that is def something i would have tried to pull growing up too...smiles.

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  4. Scarlet31 August 2012 at 12:09

    I would be wailing to with fungus and shell at the carpet ~ I enjoyed this light narrative ~ Happy Friday ~

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  5. Lydia31 August 2012 at 12:19

    Very fun, Dave. Not sure why, but I am envisioning an Easter egg hunt gone all awry!

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  6. Laurie Kolp31 August 2012 at 12:19

    lol... so cute and light, Dave

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  7. Daydreamertoo31 August 2012 at 12:45

    LOL... Yes, boys will be boys.
    I bet it looked real too though.
    Thanks for the first morning smile Dave :)

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  8. Anonymous31 August 2012 at 12:46

    Very charming. And quite wonderful to manage in a form. K.

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  9. Mary31 August 2012 at 13:10

    This made me chuckle, Dave! I love that you 'painted' this scene with a light brush.

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  10. Wolfsrosebud31 August 2012 at 14:02

    LOL... I didn't think a nursing home could have any humor

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  11. Sarah Laurence31 August 2012 at 14:25

    Ha! A whimsical humorous poem is always fun. Still, I'm relieved these poetic kids cleaned up the mess for poor old mom.

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  12. Kathy Reed31 August 2012 at 14:45

    I was waiting for the chicken joke..but this is better..

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  13. Claudia31 August 2012 at 16:29

    haha...thanks for the smile..we brought all kind of strange things home...and were surprised when mom didn't like them...parents can be really strange...smiles

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  14. Rachna Chhabria31 August 2012 at 16:32

    Don't know why I thought of a chicken egg :(

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  15. Helen31 August 2012 at 16:57

    A+++ for acing the form ~ entertaining us in the process.

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  16. Lolamouse31 August 2012 at 18:46

    Oh, your poor mom! Actually, I think I may have preferred the egg on my carpet to a fungus!

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  17. Tommaso Gervasutti31 August 2012 at 18:51

    This reminds me of a trunk of a tree that grew leaves later which with the help of two friends I could manage to carry, making it roll actually, in a ground floor room where I lived. It was a mess of a room even more a mess now with a partly molded trunk in it, but I loved it.

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  18. Cloudia31 August 2012 at 21:36

    Very dear naughtiness!


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  19. Victoria31 August 2012 at 22:11

    My (boy) cousin put plastic puke on my aunt's new couch. I can still hear her, 50 years later. Fun one, Dave.

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  20. Beachanny31 August 2012 at 23:36

    Very clever use of the form- entertaining and informative as well. Never saw fungus the color of egg yolk. Good trick to pull as it did no harm! Enjoyed the way you wove it as a poem.

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  21. kaykuala1 September 2012 at 01:54

    Some good fun being boys! Thanks for sharing Dave!

    Hank

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  22. hedgewitch1 September 2012 at 04:52

    What fun, David. I can see the whole thing.

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  23. Semaphore1 September 2012 at 04:56

    That made me laugh out loud! You did something rare there, hang a humorous poem on a serious structural form. Well done!

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  24. Dave King1 September 2012 at 12:08

    Interesting - and sometime amusing - the thoughts and pictures you report as coming to mind upon reading of my japery.

    Thanks for them all. Regretfully, time is of the essence just now (what DOES that phrase mean?) and I cannot get around to you all to reply - and in any case, I guess you've heard enough on my childish tom foolery.
    More important, I think, that I discover what's going on on your blogs.

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  25. Sreeja2 September 2012 at 15:40

    interesting...funny....all smiles..but i really wail with the mother....

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  26. Ygraine2 September 2012 at 16:25

    Had me in stitches!
    Just the sort of prank I'd have pulled as a child! :D

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  27. Lydia3 September 2012 at 10:51

    Well, just look at what Samuel said! He is 100% right. :)

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  28. Dave King3 September 2012 at 11:36

    sreeja
    Yes, I do see what you mean. I didn't see it from her point of view back then, of course!

    Ygraine
    Well you have to... don't you?

    Lydia
    Agreed!

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  29. hyperCRYPTICal4 September 2012 at 09:32

    Brilliant!

    Anna :o]

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