THE GIBBON AND THE ELEPHANT

Just a little nonsense, and to help you out a gibbon is a type of monkey!

The gibbon sat upon

A bicycle built for two

Oh what should he do

For he has no number two

He tried a bag of flour

Upon that second seat

But the flour could not pedal

And it fell into a puddle

The gibbon said

Oh what a mess

Now I will try a fish

But the fish had no

legs or feet

So pedal he could not

The gibbon cried out

I need a number two

A pencil laying on the ground

Said a number two am I

So the gibbon placed the pencil

Upon that second seat

But that pencil just rolled right off

and to the ground it went

The gibbon thought

Hey - A table has some legs

But those legs just would

Not bend

So that table could not work

Now the gibbon cried I cannot

Ride this bicycle built for two

Just as an elephant walked on by

And heard the gibbon's plea

And said I would like to ride that

lovely bicycle built for two

And that explains the day I saw

A gibbon and an elephant on

A bicycle built for two

Author's Note

I hope you know that a gibbon is a type of monkey.........primates are my favorite kind of animal

Reviews

[Nancy Lee Shrader]

Congrats on your great winning poem!

[Samuel Dickens]

Your silly little poem made me smile. Poor monkey--he only wanted to go for a ride!

[Adela Muresan]

:))
I think you would make a very good children's book writer.

This piece is very cool, funny and simple poem that I enjoyed reading. Thx a lot :) !

[Anshula]

very well written!

[James Takeo Panton]

This is well-written and playful...I enjoyed it!

[Oh, Andrea]

i loved that i could totally picture dr. suess-like illustrations in my head as i read this one. but yes, i agree with some of the other posts about not knowing what a gibbon is. but all that says is that youre clearly just more enlightened in the subject of primates than the rest of us and it's something we should all aspire to haha :)

[Kim]

grammatical errors corrected, thank you very much! : )

[Merancapeman]

Aside from minor grammatical errors, I thought it was HILARIOUS. It sounds like a mixture of Doctor Seuss and Monty Python. I like the pencil pun, that was good. If you fix this up a little more, I'm sure you can take this one places, heh... Just explain what a gibbon is in the introduction.

[Celtic Cat]

lmao.....this was wonderful "nonsense" as you call it. Very silly and funny....and it was a very cool video playing in my mind as I read it. Excellent imagery! hehehe....I'm still giggling.

[Captain Goldpants]

sp: pedal

I love the story and the archaic nature of the verse. Pedal and puddle go nicely together. Maybe a little more phonetic play like this in it?