Poetry by Chris Bunton
Terry the tadpole
Swam with his friends
In the vernal pool
In the spring time field.
He swam here and
He swam over there.
He swam and he swam
Like all tadpoles can.
But one day he saw
His pool was growing quite small
And that’s not all.
His tail seemed to be falling off.
What’s wrong with my world he said
The pool is dying up
In the blazing summer heat,
And I seem to be growing legs
My friends are changing too
What in the world will we do?
All the tadpoles asked the Bullfrog.
Who said “growk” in reply
Yes! Terry said. That’s what we do,
We go to the big pond across the way.
And look! We have legs for hopping now
It must be our destiny.
So as the tiny pool dried up
The frogs journeyed to big pond.
They hopped and hopped along.
Little did they know the dangers that await.
Terry led the merry crew
Through fields and forests new.
Till they came to a road hard as stone
With monsters roaring along.
“We gotta cross the road
Can’t you see the big blue pond?”
“But we’ll get smooshed” they cried
As the monsters wooshed by
“No! I’ll keep watch for you! “Terry said
“Now go while we have time.”
So the frogs took off without a whine.
They hopped and hopped across the road.
“Come on Terry! “They yelled. “It’s your turn!”
Terry hopped as a monster came.
It roared down where Terry laid.
He hopped again and dodged the whoosh
But, another came to give the smoosh.
Terry hopped like an insane game.
As the monsters roared by.
“Hop Terry hop” his friends all cried
“You can do it! You’re almost there.”
Terry was scared. But He was tough,
and swallowed his fear.
He made it through to the other side
And met his friends with a cheer.
And that’s the ballad of Terry the Frog,
When he and his friends hopped to big pond
They grew up and woke up to something new.
And their families are still there today.
Bio: Chris Bunton is a writer, poet and blogger from Southern Illinois. He has published in several magazines, and has written a poetry Ebook called “Against the Man” and an Addiction Recovery Ebook called “Made Free: Overcoming Addiction“
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