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<strong>Poems</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Big</strong> <strong>Kids</strong> Let’s Be Silly!<br />
Georgie's Pink and Perky Toes<br />
Evelyn Roxburgh<br />
While paddling in the rippling brook<br />
Wee Georgie scratched his nose<br />
And gazed upon some scaly things<br />
That once were perky toes<br />
“Oh pink and perky toes, my loves!”<br />
The air he filled with wails,<br />
“How could you now desert me<br />
Leaving horrid, slimy scales?”<br />
While watching now in disbelief<br />
Scales multiplied in threes.<br />
“Oh please, oh no, don't cover up<br />
My lovely dimpled knees!<br />
“Oh tickly, tickly bottom!”<br />
The scales advanced abreast,<br />
Then gleefully raced up his tum,<br />
And swarmed beneath his vest.<br />
“Oh no, its lost, its disappeared,<br />
Please tell me to my face<br />
Where has my tummy button gone<br />
Of which there is no trace?<br />
“So beautiful, so beautiful,”<br />
He wailed and dabbed his eyes,<br />
When shell like ears did succumb<br />
In spite of woeful cries.<br />
He cast himself upon the bank,<br />
And sobbed and cried anew,<br />
For perky toes and shell like ears<br />
And tummy buttons too.<br />
“Oh mummy, dearest mummy,<br />
If served upon a dish,<br />
Would you believe that I'm your boy<br />
And not a blooming fish?”<br />
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