For’t Kids – Closet Poet https://closetpoet.co.uk Poems from the backroom Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:58:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://closetpoet.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/favicon-50x50.png For’t Kids – Closet Poet https://closetpoet.co.uk 32 32 Beware the Gorillaphant https://closetpoet.co.uk/beware-the-gorillaphant/ Wed, 03 Mar 2021 00:22:09 +0000 https://closetpoet.co.uk/?p=2527 Whilst bouncing across my garden, the sun high in the sky
I happened upon a Gorillaphant, tears welling in each eye.
He said to me in trumpet-whoop: Oi young fellow all pinkly-red
What say you about my nose; do you think it suits my head?

Now honesty, so says my mum, is the way to get along.
So I mentioned quite truthfully; his head was flat, his nose too long.
Yet more than that I did pursue, his silver back and flapping ears
His hairy arms and swishing tail dangling from his rear.

Alas, his tears turned into waterfalls, flooding the petunias.
Honesty had let me down, yet slightly more peculiar;
The Gorillaphant looked just like me, plump and pinkly-red,
And with mirrored sneer he bounced on straight ahead,

Into my house, into my bath and right into my bed.

]]> The Sloth https://closetpoet.co.uk/the-sloth/ Wed, 03 Mar 2021 00:29:05 +0000 https://closetpoet.co.uk/?p=2529 Its good-natured smile
often misconstrued as a frown,
as the sloth is an indolent
creature, who lives his life
upside down.

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