I went to the Zoo

I went to the zoo

and what did I do?

I smiled at a tiger –

well, why, wouldn’t you?

I hissed at a snake,

but what a mistake

he spat at me

right in the eye

. . . I could cry!I rode on a camel,

but bumpity, bump –

it jiggled and joggled,

I fell off its hump!I picked up a penguin,

it flapped and it flipped,

it pecked with its beak;

it napped and it nipped.I stood on a ladder

and said to ‘giraffe’,

“you’re very high up,” and

he started to laugh. I chattered to monkeys;

they wouldn’t stay still,

but hung upside down

and made me feel ill.I jumped like a rabbit

and what did I see?

A huge kangaroo

was bouncing to me.I sploshed in some water,

was smelly with mud

when a hippo appeared

with a terrible THUD!Was wet and disgruntled

I needed a rest,

so up came a zebra

and lent me his vest.I’m stripy and warm, yet

I feel all alone,

climbed up on a leopard

and he took me home.

 

© Nicky Clifford 2016