Said the Toad

Said the Toad

BY J. PATRICK LEWIS
I was really in a muddle
looking over a mud puddle
’cause I didn’t have a paddle
or a twig to ride the reef.
But I said, Oh, fiddle-faddle,
this is just a little piddle
of a second fiddle puddle
so I saddled up a leaf.
I set sail on the puddle,
but I reached the muddy middle
and I rocked the leaf a little,
then I gave it all I had.
And I solved the mighty riddle
of the whole caboodle puddle
when I hopped up on the middle
of a beetle launching pad.
J. Patrick Lewis, “Said the Toad”. Copyright © 2011 by J. Patrick Lewis.  Reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd.
Source: 2011