Poems at the Poetry Free-for-all

David Mascellani

11-19-2004, 05:29 AM

And now, in order to enlighten us,
here's ten poems about the Hippopotamus.

I Had a Hippopotamus by Patrick Barrington
www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~beconrad/Verse/I.Had.A.Hippo.html

The Hippopotamus by Hilaire Belloc
www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/124.html

On the Death of Smet-Smet, the Hippopotamus-Goddess
Song of a Tribe of the Ancient Egyptians by Rupert Brooke
www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/847.html

The Hippopotamus by Lü De'an
www.lingshidao.net/hanshi/lvdean.htm

The Hippopotamus by T. S. Eliot
http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/846.html

The Hippopotamus -- Oliver Herford
http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/844.html

Hippo Poem by Margaret King
www.hazeledwards.com/poem.htm

The Hippopotamus by Wendy Murdock
www.wendy.com/children/hippo/story.html

The Hippopotamus by Ogden Nash
www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/848.html

The Hippopotamus L. Sprague de Camp
www.lspraguedecamp.com/works/work.asp?id=236

larryrap

11-19-2004, 06:34 AM

[SIZE=1]The Hippo / Theodore Roethke[/SIZE]

A Head or Tail--which does he lack?
I think his Forward's coming back!
He lives on Carrots, Leeks and Hay;
He starts to yawn--it takes All Day--

Some time I think I'll live that way.

Rachel Lindley

11-19-2004, 06:45 AM

Hippoku
[size=1]by me[/size]

Hippopotamus,
somewhat lugubriously,
sits on my best friend.

Dunc

11-19-2004, 07:46 AM

The hippopotamus, so it seems
very rarely has wet dreams
but when he do-o-o-o-oes
&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp he comes in streams
as he revels in the throes of fornication.

[SIZE=1]Cats on the Rooftops verse 447[/SIZE]

Urizen

11-20-2004, 03:12 AM

"... Following the lead of H. R. Swardson in "The Use of the Word Mistake in the Teaching of Poetry," there are no hippopotamuses in "My Papa's Waltz." As Swardson puts it, "the student who sees a hippopotamus there has made a mistake. I will say that interpretive communities who see a hippopotamus there have, en masse, made a mistake."..."

Bobby Fong
from Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz"