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| Roopali Sircar Gaur |
Dangle Wangle the Grasshopper
Dangle Wangle the Green
Grasshopper
Jumps and hops on the clean
green grass
His legs are long his eyes
are sharp
He loves to play and sing
with a harp.
To hop and jump
Jump and romp
He needs a lot of space.
He jumps and hops
Hops and jumps
a bright smile on his face.
Ant Andy saves
some Candy
for a rainy day
slow and steady
slow and steady
he walks all the way.
Dangle wangle laughs
and shouts
It’s the month of May
It won’t rain
You work in vain
Why should you
Take so much pain.
Ant Andy
there’s plenty of candy
Why do you
store for more?
Ant Andy you’re a fool.
I don’t follow any rule
I don’t even go to school.
When thunder shouted
oh so loud
drops of rain fell
from the cloud
Drip drop drip drop drip drip
drop
Dangle Wangle got so wet
He did not have a place to
stop
He could not just jump or hop
Ant Andy stayed at home
he did not want to roam
He stretched his little feet
On a bag of candy sweet.
Outside the rain went
Drip drop drip drop drip drip
drip.
Wet and hungry
Dangle wangle
learnt the rule
and when the rain
and thunder stopped
Dangle wangle
to school he hopped
now the Lazy
Green Grasshopper
worked like Andy for his
candy
And soon became the class
topper.
Porky the Porcupine
Porky porcupine
Shakes his quills
Down his spine
Like needles of pine
His nose can smell
and he can tell
carrots potatoes
turnip and roots
under the ground
Looking for shoots
If he is found
He quickly moves
making a rackety
tackety sound
the quills shiver
Like arrows in a quiver.
Bio Note: Roopali Sircar Gaur
Roopali Sircar Gaur, Ph.D. is a poet, writer, and social
justice activist. She was Associate Professor of English at Delhi
University and taught Creative Writing at the Indira Gandhi National Open
University. Her book The Twice Colonised:
Women in African Literature is a seminal text on gender, ageing, war,
disability, and post-colonial literature. Her poetry is included in several
international anthologies and is archived in the Stanford University
Pandemic digital archives. Since 2020 she has co-edited four international
poetry anthologies. She is Consultant Editor and columnist at Different Truths, a global participatory
social journalism platform; and Poetry Editor for the AWS Ezine.
You know, i used to come up with names for animals as did my son. We had a family of lizards at home when he was two and between us we named them Lizzie, Izzy, Buzy, Tizzy and Dizzy! So loved reading about dangle wangle and Porky!
ReplyDeleteThank you Swati for reading these. I read your story about Mohan. Generations of soldiers and doctors in his blood gave him the grit. The values of not letting the side down. It’s so painful for you and your family to lose a gem. So painful for me as a mother .
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