Sloth and the Weasel – Answer to a Poetic challenge by Chris Mills via Natalie Frank's hub.
The Sloth
The challenge
by Shyron E Shenko
Our friend and fellow Hubber
Chris Mills (cam8510) wrote a poem
“The Boar and the Wolf”
Issued a challenge for us to write one
And try to not be aloof
I accept this challenge to write a whimsical nonsensical poem
Using a list of words that do not rhyme
Chris got the list of ten words
From another Hubber friend of yours and mine
So…with a hearty ‘Hi-Ho-Silver’
Let my poem begin
In a haze of Purple
With words in a group of ten
• Silver
• Purple,
• Month
• Ninth
• Pint
• Wolf
• Opus - onus
• Dangerous
• Marathon
• Discombobulate
In this sixth Month
As we sit down to sip from a bootleg pint
This fourteenth day not the Ninth
Beware the Wolf
it’s onus and written in the Opus
So… in this Marathon
Everyone get set to run
Try not to hesitate
Or you might Discombobulate
Sloth and the Weasel the Poem
©by Shyron E Shenko
The sly sluttish sloth whose fur was Silver
Who thought he could out live her
If he could just wed the rich weasel who was Purple
When she got dunked trying to slurp in the grape wine vat
Which made her words come out like a gurgle
He thought he could win her on the 1st day 9thMonth
And he wrote her an Opus
To declare he would grow in his Metamorphosis
Ah beware the wolf
Hiding in her office
The wolf would scoff they would dine on caviar with wine
The weasel’s suitors were all set to run
A very simple Marathon
To see her wedding come undone
The cantankerous raccoon became Dangerous
From too many hours in the sun
He said of the wine I’ll have a pint
Or it might be my ninth
In fact, who knows how much I’ve had
The sloth finally came through
He knew just what to do
Reading the Opus
Right next to a locust
Which made weasel swoon
From the name of the tune
And discombobulated her head
And soon the sloth and the weasel wed
The sloth was elated and finally sated
She is the only one that he dated
But, the sloth she berated
And now he wished he were dead
© 2018 Shyron E Shenko