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Love on the high seas.
Archie, The Grumpy Whale by Stu Harrell
Free Form Poetry Contest contest entry

Raise your glasses finest lads
Champions of wind and sail
We're here this day to give a toast
To Archie, the grumpy whale.
 
For he had chased our tiny ship
Across the bounding main
Some towhead sent a harpoon 
At his love near the coast of Spain
 
He chased us with a scowl he did
And nearly flipped us o'er
We was proper chastened
And bothered her no more
 
There was a storm a brewin'
Off the coast of Charleston town 
We ladled him some Frogmore stew
Then hoisted him a crown
 
Now a tasty treat of the locals
Was a shrimpy tasty brew
Yummy crabs,corny cobs, chubby taters too
Became the Frogmore stew
 
For when he ate the fancy goop
Even just a tiny sip
Archie leaped so high up from the depths
That he gave a mighty flip
 
Huge was the wave he created
It drove the storm away
Now we raise a toast to his memory
Have done so til this day.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Author Notes
Frogmore stew is a well known dish in South Carolina.....another little scribble from the Penny Poets.....Best Wishes to all.....Stu Harrell

     

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