Tagxedo Color Theme: Greenish Splat
Font: League Gothic
Poetry form: Ghazal
G is for Giraffe
Oh, giraffe with head on a neck that goes high
Eating leaves that grow on trees so high.
What does it look like close to the sky
Looking down from way up high?
Do you imagine that your head can fly
Since it’s so close to the birds flying high?
When you look around what do you spy
Can you see over mountains with tops quite high?
You’re so far away, are you proud or shy;
Could it be that's why your head's held high?
Would you even try to look in the eye
Of another giraffe that was just as high?
It makes Donna wonder, why, oh, why
A giraffe always keeps his head so high.
© 2012 Donna J.T. Smith
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A ghazal's (pronounced ghuzzle) structure is AA, bA, cA, dA, eA, etc. usually with 7 couplets, complete on their own. The first line has an element of rhyme with the second line. Often the author is named in the last couplet. Donna - that's me...or it is I...I am Donna. You get it, right?
gGgGgGgGgGgGgGgGgGg
I climbed a tall tree
and looked down
to see
what a
giraffe sees
when he
looks
down
at
me
and I
could see
that
I would
be
very far
away
indeed
I think
I want to
get down
from
this
tree
very carefully.
© 2012 Donna J.T. Smith
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Want to know more about giraffes? Here you go! Two more informative links at the end of the article.
Want to know more about giraffes? Here you go! Two more informative links at the end of the article.
Giraffes are beautiful. They look royal and should be called "Your Highness." It is so interesting that ghazal expects to use the author's name.
ReplyDeleteHA! Love that. I should have thought of that "Your HIGHness"! Very cute!
Deletelovely photo for G, creative
ReplyDeletedo check out my G at GAC a-z
Thanks for stopping by! We get a day off, and then MONDAY...letter H! I stopped by your blog - read you again later!
DeleteBetcha don't see many giraffes in Maine! Great ghazal for the giraffe.
ReplyDeleteYou know, you are right! I wonder where they are hiding...
DeleteGiraffes are one of my favorite animals to see at the zoo.
ReplyDeleteGiraffes have always interested me. Your blog was a fun read!
ReplyDeleteI wish I could write poetry!!! Your A to Z theme is creative and fun!
ReplyDeleteToo fun, with all the g's. I am amazed that you are to G & keep finding fonts, etc. to do this project with from A to Z. So cool that they're there. I liked both, but especially the 2nd one with "I want to/get down/from/this/tree/very carefully. Your creativity is amazing, Donna.
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