by Aldrin A Wilding-West

Created on: February 25, 2010   Last Updated: February 26, 2010

A poem for children (and adults too). Let's nip discrimination in the bud as early as we can?  Does it really matter what we look like? 

I once saw an elephant with big yellow eyes
With the wings of a butterfly up in the sky
He saw me and trumpeted, “What a strange thing?”
“Only two legs and not even one wing!”

Next was a fish with a baboon’s behind

You know, those cheeky big pink ones you find?
The fish saw me too, and he said, very mellow
“He’s not got a pink bottom like me the poor fellow”

A little later on, I came across a white worm
In a sleek orange one-piece with her hair in a perm
When she first saw me, she just gave a laugh
She thought I was the front end, of a giraffe!

After tea-time I spied a frog on a bike
Cycling in a pond with four newts that he liked
That frog didn’t notice me until I came near
He just nodded and thought that I looked rather queer

At home, I found an invitation on my mat
“Come to our party – but you must wear a cat!”
“It’s down by the green, next to Blueberry Sea”
“It’ll be much more fun than watching TV”

Off I went to get changed, and to put on my hat
They’d said wear a cat, I was sure they meant hat
To the Blueberry Sea I made my way
A party, what a nice way to end the day

When I got to the green, what should I see?
They were all wearing cat’s, all except me!
The elephant, the fish, the worm and the frog
All laughing at me, with their friend the wart-hog

But they welcomed me then, and I had lots of fun
Playing games with the animals as down went the sun
“You see it really doesn’t matter, how we appear”
Said a three-headed bumble-bee with only one ear....

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