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[aid] => mick
[title] => Jonathan Pioneer Penguin
[time] => 2003-01-28 02:00:00
[hometext] => This is a story of epic courage and endeavour by one of God's least understood creatures
The scene ....a deserted Antartic weather station. Nearby stand a flock of penguins.
[bodytext] => Far to the south in the land of snow
remote from the hand of man,
the penguin day is swim and play
their part in The Good Lord's plan.
They bask, they preen, they stand serene
as only penguins can.........
and all conform, to the penguin norm
excepting.......Jonathan!
When the weather men abandoned camp
Jonathan went down for a look.
They'd surprisingly left a library
where a book his interest took
"Birds of Antartica" it said
with pictures at which he shook!
"It says I'm a bird!" and he read every word.
(It was a Penguin book)
As the import of what he read sank in
he found it hard to deny
that all along they'd got it wrong
what else could it imply?
"If these fin things are really wings
can someone tell me why
our aquatic role at the sothern pole
we're birds! Why don't we fly?"
There followed an awful lot of not
quite "getting it togethers".
Beating the air, his "wings" a blur
and running "hell for leathers".
"I wonder why, I cannot fly
in spite of all endeavours
my hadicap's not rate of flaps..........
IT'S LACK OF BLOODY FEATHERS!"
And so he went back to the Library
Where a kite soaring book he spied
"To fly entails a pair of sails
stretched wide".....he read and sighed,
This type of flight , indeed just might
be something to be tried
"Without a doubt flipper flappin's out
I'll make a sail and glide!"
A plastic sleeve from an atlas there
had moulded pockets which
his wings and feet slipped in quite neat
with neither cut nor stitch
The wind was strong.....his flight was long
but landing saw a hitch
he'd good control, in yaw and roll
but rather less in pitch!
Back again "to the drawing board"
to have another scan
at chapter 9 "Advanced Design"
and make a new sail plan
he read about "induced washout"
and suddenly thought I can
just curl my toes to raise the nose
like kinda cool, hey man!
High o'er the ice in the midnight sun
a little penguin soars.
The flock below reward each show
with rapturous applause.
He flies with ease! He three-sixtees
to seek out thermal cores
that germinate in the glacial plate
on places where it thaws.
Far to the south in the land of snow
remote from the hand of man.
The penguin day is swim and play
their part in The Good Lords Plan
The bask, they preen, they stand serene
as only penguins can.
and all conform to the penguin norm................................................
..............................excepting Jonathan
[comments] => 14
[counter] => 177
[topic] => 43
[informant] => wrybod
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[alanguage] => english
[acomm] => 0
[haspoll] => 0
[pollID] => 0
[score] => 15
[ratings] => 3
[editpoem] => 1
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Jonathan Pioneer Penguin
Contributed by
wrybod
on
Tuesday, 28th January 2003 @ 02:00:00 AM in AEST
Topic:
oops
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Far to the south in the land of snow
remote from the hand of man,
the penguin day is swim and play
their part in The Good Lord's plan.
They bask, they preen, they stand serene
as only penguins can.........
and all conform, to the penguin norm
excepting.......Jonathan!
When the weather men abandoned camp
Jonathan went down for a look.
They'd surprisingly left a library
where a book his interest took
"Birds of Antartica" it said
with pictures at which he shook!
"It says I'm a bird!" and he read every word.
(It was a Penguin book)
As the import of what he read sank in
he found it hard to deny
that all along they'd got it wrong
what else could it imply?
"If these fin things are really wings
can someone tell me why
our aquatic role at the sothern pole
we're birds! Why don't we fly?"
There followed an awful lot of not
quite "getting it togethers".
Beating the air, his "wings" a blur
and running "hell for leathers".
"I wonder why, I cannot fly
in spite of all endeavours
my hadicap's not rate of flaps..........
IT'S LACK OF BLOODY FEATHERS!"
And so he went back to the Library
Where a kite soaring book he spied
"To fly entails a pair of sails
stretched wide".....he read and sighed,
This type of flight , indeed just might
be something to be tried
"Without a doubt flipper flappin's out
I'll make a sail and glide!"
A plastic sleeve from an atlas there
had moulded pockets which
his wings and feet slipped in quite neat
with neither cut nor stitch
The wind was strong.....his flight was long
but landing saw a hitch
he'd good control, in yaw and roll
but rather less in pitch!
Back again "to the drawing board"
to have another scan
at chapter 9 "Advanced Design"
and make a new sail plan
he read about "induced washout"
and suddenly thought I can
just curl my toes to raise the nose
like kinda cool, hey man!
High o'er the ice in the midnight sun
a little penguin soars.
The flock below reward each show
with rapturous applause.
He flies with ease! He three-sixtees
to seek out thermal cores
that germinate in the glacial plate
on places where it thaws.
Far to the south in the land of snow
remote from the hand of man.
The penguin day is swim and play
their part in The Good Lords Plan
The bask, they preen, they stand serene
as only penguins can.
and all conform to the penguin norm................................................
..............................excepting Jonathan
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Re: Jonathan Pioneer Penguin
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by Lia on
Tuesday, 28th January 2003 @ 02:11:40 AM AEST
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| BRAVO!!! what a pleasant imagination you have...I so enjoyed reading this :) |
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Re: Jonathan Pioneer Penguin
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by Wrybod on
Tuesday, 28th January 2003 @ 03:33:01 AM AEST
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| Lia, Jonathan thanks you with all his heart and is sending you a fish when the weathermen come back. |
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Re: Jonathan Pioneer Penguin
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by Wrybod on
Tuesday, 28th January 2003 @ 03:36:55 AM AEST
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| Lia, Jonathan thanks you with all his heart and is sending you a fish when the weathermen come back. |
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Re: Jonathan Pioneer Penguin
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by DreamWeaver on
Tuesday, 28th January 2003 @ 05:51:39 AM AEST
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| Brilliant - awesome write. What an amazing poet you are - and perfect R&R too. Love this. |
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Re: Jonathan Pioneer Penguin
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by Wrybod on
Tuesday, 28th January 2003 @ 08:17:10 AM AEST
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DreamWeaver. You're too kind. Jonathan says when the weather men come back he'll send you all a fish.
P.S. wo' is R&R? |
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Re: Jonathan Pioneer Penguin
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by DreamWeaver on
Tuesday, 28th January 2003 @ 02:33:54 PM AEST
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| R&R is rhyme and rhythm ... thanks for the fish :)))) |
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Re: Jonathan Pioneer Penguin
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by LadyDama on
Thursday, 20th February 2003 @ 10:32:31 AM AEST
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ok, now i'm really laughing
my baby, i'm sure i woke...
i think i have possibly gone daffy
this one is awesome, no joke! |
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Re: Jonathan Pioneer Penguin
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by Wrybod on
Thursday, 20th February 2003 @ 04:09:24 PM AEST
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Ok if you make a wish
Joathan says he'll send you a fish
It won't be 'till the men alight
he can fly and swim
but he still can't write
are we Bob and Michelle or LD and WB |
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Re: Jonathan Pioneer Penguin
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by LadyDama on
Thursday, 20th February 2003 @ 04:24:00 PM AEST
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::catches the fish::
says, hmm, medium or rare?
her little audrey says
let's just eat it, who cares?
which ever you prefer
is fine by me
i actually like my name
and yours is pretty
(lol, ok, now i'm being silly!) |
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Re: Jonathan Pioneer Penguin
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by Wrybod on
Friday, 21st February 2003 @ 03:49:13 AM AEST
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LD and Wrybod then
writing here
Michelle and Bob
over there |
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Re: Jonathan Pioneer Penguin
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by karoody on
Wednesday, 19th March 2003 @ 05:27:01 AM AEST
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| a great imagination indeed. such a great poet and story teller you are. thank god for little pengiuns that march to their own drum! |
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Re: Jonathan Pioneer Penguin
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by Wrybod on
Friday, 21st March 2003 @ 10:33:44 AM AEST
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| Kara Checking through my list I keep finding you on your marathon. That in itself is a wonderful compliment. Thank you so much |
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Re: Jonathan Pioneer Penguin
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by norm on
Saturday, 5th July 2003 @ 01:06:17 PM AEST
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This is absolutely brilliant + funny as hell
------------------------------------
I like your little penguin
he's odd as odd can be
I've changed my initials to JNT
for Johnathan Norm you see...
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Re: Jonathan Pioneer Penguin
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by Wrybod on
Saturday, 5th July 2003 @ 03:19:05 PM AEST
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Now you be carefull norman
don't do something rash
Could leave you feeling sore man
and slightly short of cash |
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