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Just a fun piece id like to put music to. Suggestions please.
BEAUTIFUL PEST! Written words [Helena Donovan}.30/6/07.
You creatures whom I would not kill
Move on mass, precision drill
Belly silently sliding on
Feasting all night, retrieve at dawn.
I did see you this morn you know
Your belly full made you slow
Your captain calling from ahead
Quickly now, you’ll end up dead.
Chorus
So masticate your free free lunch
Don’t rush or gulp, just munch munch.
Tomorrow if the sun breaks through
A tan for me, no lunch for you.
Some plants now have frilly leaves
Chewed and shaped with slime and ease
You glide or hide beneath the fronds
Another meal lets feast till dawn.
More of you with coloured shells
This thin veneer you wear so well
Round and round my plants you go
Catwalk Glamour, steal the show.
Some of you have taste so fine
On Hosta leaves you only dine
Monsieur! A la Carte for you?
Escargot? No No! Si Si.
As rain still falls you’re having a ball
Waltzing on patios, boogieing down walls
Gymnastic style, no coaching skills
Some rain some plants and the will to live.
Chorus.
So masticate your free free lunch
Don’t rush or gulp just munch munch
Tomorrow if the sun breaks through
A tan for me, no lunch for you.
Last edited by Old Doll (2009-10-12 01:14:12)
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this is a very entertaining piece lena. at first i thought you were talking about ants, but i dont think they come out at night?
then i thought it might be slugs or snails?
i'm confused, but very entertained. how a good poem should leave you...thinking
phill
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Yes its about snails Phil.
3 months of daily rain. 2 summers ago. I near went off me trolley 
but the snails were having a ball day and night in my garden..
Thank you for your comments.
Old Doll.
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Simply brilliant...
How long did this take?
How did you feel when you finished it?
Did it come in bits or straight to you?
J
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Hhaahahahahah, a period of 3 month's rain and
Observation.
Thanks sunshine,
Old doll,
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I should really read other peoples posts more often above
J
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hi helena snails i can put up with,love to see all those curly shells they drag around,bat slugs make my skin crawl yuk,nice piece looking forward to it in songs.....stay cool
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I never heard of bat slugs,
I just like looking at the ones with shell backs. So amazing to watch.
Nature as always amazed me. Thank You for your comment sir.
Old Doll
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