Subject: [Tweeters] Ode to a merganser
Date: Jan 28 08:58:27 2007
From: Kathy Andrich - chukarbird at yahoo.com


Hi Larry and Tweeters,

Thank you, there is something about the name Smew...
Has anyone run across another poem about a Smew that
is written ala Dr. Suess? It is hilarious but I can't
remember where I read it.

Kathy
Roosting in S King County


--- Larry Schwitters <lpatters at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> This is great. From CALBIRDS.
>
> SMEW MUSINGS
>
> I think that I may never view
> a bird as lovely as a Smew,
>
> a duck so rare, it won't be found
> in half the field guides that abound
>
> a-fishin' Hawkins Pond in Soulsbyville,
> a fool's gold prospect in 'them thar hills';
>
> whether captive loose, or wildly lost,
> those flocks of birders count no cost
>
> for ogling such a stunning sight
> of Nature's sculpted black-on-white.
>
> Sal Salerno, Modesto, CA
>
>
> Why can't I write like that?
>
> Larry Schwitters
> Issaquah
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