Froglet Nonet

Gold cherry

By Philip Sidney

Wed, 04 Jul 2018
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Tadpoles move in green language, fluid
commas wriggle between voiceless
speech marks, quiet apostrophes,
wordless as the mermaid
who swapped her tongue for
feet, translate cool
existence
into
frog.
 

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Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on

lovely IP response Philip - you're right, they look exactly like little apostrophes!

 

Submitted by london_calling79 on

‘Wordless as the mermaid’ That line gave me shivers. Beautiful writing.

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

I like the idea that tadpoles are punctuation in wordless water. And how the last syllable is "frog" , somehow solid after all the wriggling rhythm

 

Submitted by Philip Sidney on

Thank you Insert and LC.  Frogs haunt my dreams - and my garden. smiley

Submitted by Philip Sidney on

Thanks Di, I've had lots of wrigglers - now they are hopping off with solidity.  I've spent a lot of time trying to read their squirming punctuation - it's a mystery. :)

Submitted by Philip Sidney on

Thank you for the cherries. smiley

Submitted by Philip Sidney on

Thank you so much - from me and the tads. laugh

Submitted by celticman on

a bit froggy. but I like it. 

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

I liked the abrupt statement at the end, evoking the huge remarkable transition/metamorphosis that we see so suddenly from quiet cool wriggles to jumping active frog (though he does have a remarkable insect-catching tongue as well as jumping feet!) Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Philip Sidney on

Thanks Rhiannon -- yep, you're right about the tongue - they gain a croacky voice too. :)

Submitted by Tom Brown on

How fascinating were tadpoles when we were children! And out of hundreds and hundreds op tadpoles only one or two make it to a frog. I hear some people actually eat frogs and also some kinds have a very poisoness skin.

Keep well Philip! Tom Brown