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Picklebug Ticklebug

 

Picklebug ticklebug

Tiny little toes

 

Noodlebug doodlebug

Fuzzy little clothes

 

Wigglebug jigglebug

Inching up a tree

 

Needlebug skeedlebug

Looking down at me

 

— Michael Beadle

     2017©

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Birthday Wishes

 

I don’t want an anaconda for my birthday.

Don’t need a chimpanzee to bring me cake.

What I’d love is a hug from a panda,

And a sky of fireflies across a lake.

 

— Michael Beadle

     2017©

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I'm a Ninja

(parody of Emily Dickinson's "I'm a Nobody! Who are you?")

 

I'm a ninja! Who are you?

Are you well versed in kung-fu?

Then we should star in movies!

They'd give us contracts, you know.

 

How dashing to be an actor!

How famous, like a hit song,

To have your name in lights—

What could possibly go wrong?

 

—Michael Beadle

    2017©

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Bull Elk in Cataloochee

 

As pilgrims we come

in late summer, armed with Canons

and Nikons, drawn to the valley

once home to corn and cattle,

Palmers and Caldwells.

Thief-still, we stand watch

in a scrim of woods, waiting

for the flick of a tail, twitch of an ear,

branch of antler among burnt maple.

One by one, hoof and hide emerge

to graze in a sprawling meadow.

Chief among them steps forth,

snorts a musky breath.

For weeks he will forsake food

to herd his white-rumped harem,

ward off rivals with a single cry

that startles the air—

a long shrill note,

ancient, defiant,

a call to all things wild.

 

Our only reply is silence.

 

— Michael Beadle

     2017©

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