Penelope Antelope : A Random Poem

i liked this a lot

Some days call for silly.

ha ha cute poem

But srsly... why is it PenELLo-pee and not Penn-eh-LOPE?
or An-TELLo-pee and not Ant-eh-LOPE?

Ask the Greeks. :)

Ha ha ha. "...as antelopes should."

You know, that would make a cute kid's book. Maybe you have another career brewing.

Penelope the antelope
developed a plan to elope.
It did involve a cantaloupe,
an envelope, and rope.

I think you missed YOUR calling, too!

Ha ha. What? Poetry for insane children? I know! "Poetry for the serial killer in all of us."

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Heh. That actually would be fun to put together.

I like it! Why have a play on words when you can have a poem on words?

My thoughts exactly!

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

I like the way you talk!

what a very thoughtful antelope :D

Great thoughts come from surprising sources.

Good work.

Excellent job of working in cantaloupe. The only use in verse, and I use the term advisedly, that I know of is "I know we can't elope but honey, do be mine..." from that great oldie "When It's Apple Blossom Time in Orange, New Jersey."

I was quite disappointed to find I'd been misspelling cantaloupe all these years - I wanted it to be cantelope to better match Penelope (and that would have been her name). But instead, she had to be an antelope!

Can you verify any of this?
I can guarantee you that there will zoologists fascinated by your findings. It's one thing to be cloven hoofed and outside your natural environment, but to be able to ponder while your doing so indicates a large jump in the progression of the species along the evolutionary path.

You should have included color pictures, maybe crayon drawings with big elephants in the background going "Bavoooooohm."

Silly its the other white chicken

Hmmm... I'll have to get Laela to draw me a Penelope... or an cantelope... or Nike Mike... or zoologists looking at cloven hooves... or....

'Bout time you got back to rhyme!!!

Some things are (?) worth waiting for!?

Indeed you are.

Very cute. And now I some cantaloupe.

Too bad. Penelope scarfed it down!

Simplicity rather than multiplicity -- you are very talented.

and it was so much fun reading your poem!

Into each day a little fluff MUST fall!

Very playful - thanks for sharing :-)) can you forward this to The Surreal Circus group please?

Certainly! Thanks for the suggestion.

Thanks for submitting to The Surreal Circus.

Definitely surreal. Now featured!

Oooh, thanks! Who knew random silliness could pay off?

Tracy,

This comment is just to let you know that his post is spotlighted in the Thursday edition of Today On Gather.

You Can View It HERE.

Congratulations!

Thank you, Connie!

You've been spotlighted, yay!!!!

I should really powder my nose!

funny and worth thinking about!

But not TOO much. ;-)

One of those many quirks of pronunciation. Cute, clever, very Tracy!

Grazie, Juan!

I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You maaaaay have gone overboard with the !!s. ... but thanks, Mike-not-like-Nike.

She accuses me of the same thing. Why, I don't know!!!!!!!!!!!!

Compared to Not-Nike-Mike, you're a rookie.

:-( Guess I'll have to try harder.

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Goober. ;-)

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You ok?

His finger is stuck. Serious habanero OD problem. *shakes head*

There is a Little Dutch boy joke in there but I won't lay a finger on it.

You're mellowing, man.

ow

I freakin love this.

Back in the late 80s when I was drinking too much tequila and had to stop, I use to write about my struggle in my journal. And when I did I had a substitue for the word 'Tequila' (and my drinking in general, which was, basically tequila). You guessed it, "Penelope". And I use to write such nasty crap about "Penelope", right up until our eventual divorce. I know your poem, wonderful poem, has nothing to do with this, but Tracy, just wanted to share that with you.

LY

You know, I've been hearing a lot of stories lately about people drinking too much tequila in the 80s. Some of them therefore don't even remember the 80s!

As for Penelope as a code name... I know a woman whose arm is disabled due to a stroke -- she calls it Barbara!

Wonderful poem and wouldn't it be nice if everyone had the antelope's ability to unremember?

Michael, if it were possible without drugs or brain surgery, I would SOOOOO love to try out selective "unremembering." :-D

Nike!... a classical word for victory,
In this poem that is the very epitome,
Of excellence in written poetry,
That would rival the muse Calliope...

I do hope that you’ll pardon the hyperbole,
But this poem just seemed that good to me.

I grant you full pardon. :-) It's funny you chose Calliope because when I asked someone at work today why Penelope and antelope weren't pronounced the same he scoffed that Penelope was a NAME so the rules didn't apply, and then he used Calliope as an example. I pointed out that callopies are *things* too but he didn't want to hear it.

I think that it actually has more to do with whether or not the words are of Greek origin.

Calliope would be right proud of this which is not anitphone nor Antigone but more like Symphony

which, to follow the rule, should be: symphone. But it is not. Go figure. I studied the Demotic Elleniki a tad.

Here’s a limerick inspired by the word misanthrope.

There once was a misanthrope named O’Hare
Who joined a group of misanthropes; though rare,
The group was legit,
but O’Hare had to quit,
Because he couldn’t stand anyone there.

And really, who could blame him? They were all a buncha...

I love canteloupe.

Here you go!

Delicious! Can you cut it into smaller squares for me?

Hmm, I can, but it seems Yahoo Image Search cannot.

However, I did find this VERY intriguing footwear.

do they ever stink?

That's your punishment for being English speakers. Or the fun you get to have as English speakers. Pick your choice. :)

Excellent poem--I can visualize some Seuss-like illustrations.

Thanks, and... ha! Actually, now I can, too.

Perhaps you should get Laela to illustrate your poem, then post it again!!!

This sounds familiar

He, he. That's good that she forgot.
It would drive her crazy, if she hadn't.

When Antelope Go Mad -- The Next Fox Special!

Good, yeah!

make that imperfect vision.

vision is the least of my problems.... my characters are having so much fun and I ma NOTTTTTTTTTTT

I hate it when i accidentally delete my own comment,. ...wee willy wonka, tonka, chocolate, agriculturalists maid chopped off the tails of three rodents with imperfect vision/s. and time for me to get back to work. sob sob

that was not my comment, but the topics of my comment.