Lion Fail
Ladies,
love
a tiger not a lion.
Roars
are bloviation when
the
lioness does the dyin'.
Love
an honest scorpion
that
never hides its sting, or
crab
approaching sideways
not
pretending to be king.
Fish-taled
goats, rockheaded rams
may
often go berserk
but
never love a lion;
you’ll
get stuck with all
his
wetwork.
~November 2011, rev 12/12
No offense to the Big Cats amongst us, just having some astrological fun.
Header Image: Nominor Leo, by Jean-Leon Gerome, 1883
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Footer: Anatomical Man, Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry, 1416, by the Limbourg brothers
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well now you make me sad, considering i am a leo...whatchu trying to say bout me? smiles...
ReplyDeleteYou have to realize, I'm a goat. Makes more sense now, right? It's a different view here at the bottom of the food chain. ;_)
Deletelove an honest scorpion that never hides its sting...that is a cool line...and it sings too hedge...
ReplyDeleterawr
I love this, Hedge. Love the rhyming and the humor.
ReplyDeleteThanks Sherry--just playing around. I decided the world wasn't ready for another bleak, dismal poem sopping with depression. ;-)
DeleteI hear that Male Lions mate up to 27 times a day!
ReplyDeleteGive em a break!
Loved your Astrological Nonsensical 55 Moon Goat.
Your creative juices are flowing like the River Styx.
Thanks for playing so tongue and cheeky, and have a Kick Ass Week-End
Rockheaded ram? Is that Sagittarius? Just trying to figure out where I fit in. ;-)
ReplyDelete...I'm an honest Scorpian! :) Loved this "55 Moon Goat". ha ha
ReplyDeleteHa!I like that--it fits. ;_)
DeleteLibra in the west. Woods Tiger in the East.
ReplyDeleteAh, but lions are so adorable!
ReplyDeleteRight until they open their jaws. ;_)
DeleteI've not known any male leos so saved from that! Very cute poem, though I suspect someone may feel a little picked on! Ha! k.
ReplyDeleteBig Cats have big shoulders. They'll be okay--I'll just have to watch my back in the jungle.
DeleteYou're preaching to the choir. I was married to a Leo for 13 years. And indeed, I ended up doing freaking everything.
ReplyDelete"Fish-TALED goats"...I see ya, Hedge. Clever.
Here's a song to go with:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elr3MS4IwIA
Honest and straightforward! cool, you did have fun- thanks!
ReplyDeleteI'm a Scorpio, but I prefer the Chinese zodiac because there I'm a Dragon, which is WAY cooler than a creepy scorpion.
ReplyDelete(I'm not so sure how your 55 bodes for my son, who's a Leo)
I am Sagittarius
ReplyDeleteShooter of Eros
So eagerly poised
On your lithe thighs.
There is only one problem
Out, out damned scorpion
Cheers!
JzB
My grandson is a Leo, and such a one! Loved this fun of yours. I'm Aquarius married to a Taurus for 39 years - do I get an astrological prize?
ReplyDeleteI'm fond of the Bull, but you may need one as air and earth makes a big dust storm sometimes. :P
Deletewell, plus anyone married to anyone for 39 years deserves a prize!
DeleteYeah, definitely prefer the Tigers. Wet work stumped me for a bit. I Googled.
ReplyDeleteThis was fun! I really did enjoy all your astrological allusions.
ReplyDeleteHey sister goat - that's a fun one. And I can really use some light and playful right about now.
ReplyDeletei much prefer the scorpion to the lion. being a gemini, however, that sentiment could change at any moment. fun writing, Hedge. thanks for loosening things up a bit.
ReplyDeleteI got me a Lion but I'm a Libra so I'm pretty good with the leash.
ReplyDeleteTrain of Thought