
JUNGLE HAIR
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I tried to comb my hair today
And what to my surprise
An alligator caught my comb
On his wet and scaly thighs.
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I told the gator to get out
You belong not in my locks.
But he replied, "The monkey said
I could stay if I wore socks."
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"Socks," I yelled. "There's no socks on your toes.
Whatever can you mean?"
"Not my toes," he snapped with his pearly whites.
"On my ears," said this creature bright green.
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There's no green, no brown, no pearly white
In the hair on my head, just my curls.
To prove it, I shook it, my Jungle Hair
And out fell a frog named Earl.
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Earl the frog hopped round and round
Then right back into my hair.
I reached and grabbed to get him out
Then shouted, "Hey, get out of there."
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To my surprise Earl croaked right back
In a throaty croak no less.
"When I find my dinner I'll leave hip hop
No fight, no fuss, no mess."
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Swack! With a flip and a soggy flop
A slobbery tongue wet my ear.
With a hip and a hop Earl sailed right by
And croaked, "I'm outa here."
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"'Bout time," said a voice with a furry tail.
A monkey? How did you come to be
With the rest of these creatures on top of my head?
"Ask the elephant," he said, "then you'll see."
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How we came to be on top of your head
To live here for just a bit.
It's getting a little bit crowded
I can't find a good place to sit.
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"An elephant, rhino, yak and a lemur,"
I said to the slithery snake.
"Do I look like a cab or a boarding house?
How much more do you think I can take?"
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When you went to the zoo with your school yesterday
"Let's escape," said the snake to his friends.
But we're tired now and want to go home.
Call a cab and we'll call this the end.
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PHEW!
When this Silly Poem started to fall out of my head it just kept coming and coming. I decided to let it go until it stopped.
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It's very silly and nonsensical so I think kids might think it's funny... 'cause that's how kids are supposed to be.
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Hope they like it!