If it’s not Monday yet where you are just pretend it is 
Today/tomorrow I have a fun guest for you and ssh! the funny thing is she doesn’t even know. Surprise, Penny! I absolutely love her froggy poem from the A to Z Poetry Challenge so I thought I’d share it here today. Nevermind metaphors, they can wait.
Hop! Plop! But Know When to Stop!
Frog went for a hop
And plop!
Ran right into a house.
Ribbit-anyone home?
No answer.
Oh well, hop
And plop!
Right onto the kitchen table.
Oh my! Fresh fly pie!
No way.
Gee! How lucky can one frog be?
Ew! Too fresh! (That bugs me.)
Ew! Too old! (I’d probably croak.)
Yum! Just right! (I’m toadally lucky!)
Hmmm…what next?
Hop!
And plop!
Right back outside.
“Time’s fun when you’re havin’ flies!”
But not when the bears come home!
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Ha ha ha! Loved the poem (Times fun when you’re havin’ flies!), AND the video – wish you could have seen my daughter’s reaction to it too!
Great poem Penny! And that frog is a riot!
Great poem Penny! We have a rogue neighborhood cat who acts a lot like this frog.
A cat that acts like a frog, there’s a story!
Cute poem Penny. The frog was funny too!
Love the poem, Penny, and the video was fun!
What a wonderful surprise, Catherine! Thanks for posting my frog poem! I remember….it was free verse day in the poetry challenge and free verse freaks me out….I’m scared of writing it. So frog has a little rhyme, too, and I wasn’t so sure how it worked. Im thrilled you liked it enough to post it. Some good metaphors would probably add a little happy to frog’s hoppy :•). Thank you so much!!
The video is histerical! Great poem Ms. Klostermann!
Penny, fabulous poem and I loved the video too. For me it works with a without the metaphor!
I agree Joanna. I should have kept Metaphar Monday out of it. Love the frog theme though.
Such a charming poem. (I like pebble enough to not want to change it.)
Love that funny fellow on the bench. It reminds me of some humans I know who actually resemble the frog
Hee hee! Barbara that’s funny.
Fresh fly pie! Love that line!
Well done Penny!
I think that frog is waiting for his princess to come along.