Quacky little bird sound When you hear it coming duck! If farmer Ted is after you You're running out of luck
Totin' shotgun and bird shot, Son, he's aiming not to please He's sneaking close behind you bird You better hold your sneeze
Cuz your feathers are a tickler Your bill is orange and bright While the farmer is a stickler He will sup on bird tonight
Lord love a duck! Of him you mustn't run a fowl Pain from your freshly plucked feathers Will be enough to make you howl!
7/17/2019 - Poetry form: Light Verse - This is the first poem in my new e-book "Bird Beaks & Bee's Knees", a collection of bird-brained poems that attempt to answer the following question: What can you do when you're as busy as a bee and life bugs you to the point where you cry fowl? And there you go, barking at the geese, ducks and swans, swatting carpenter bees with your tennis racket and drowning ants with your water hose as if that will help. The Woodpecker Gazette calls it "A silly, idiotic and unintelligent must-read." So as not to run afoul of the grammar police, please understand that my poetic license is up to date, misspelled words are intentional and the use of puns is clearly authorized. Why in the world would I use puns? To make it more punny, of course! Ok, I'll stop now. Maybe...