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DUCK POETRY
Four ducks on a pond
A grass bank beyond
A blue sky of spring
White clouds on the wing.
What a little thing
To remember for years
To remember with tears.
DUCK CHASING
By Galway Kinnell
I spied a very small brown duck
Riding the swells of the sea
Like a rocking-chair.
"Little duck!" I cried.
It paddles away,
I paddles after it.
When it dived,
Down I dived: too smoky was the sea,
We were lost. It surfaced
In the west, I torpedoed west
And when it dived I dived,
And we were lost and lost and lost
In the slant smoke of the sea.
When I came floating up on it
Form the side, like a dead man,
And yelled suddenly, it took off,
It skimmed the swells as it ascended,
Brown wings burning and flashing
In the sun as the sea it rose over
Burned and flashed underneath it.
I did not see the little duck again.
Duck-chasing is a game like any game
When it is over it is all over.
A duck and a drake,
And a halfpenny cake,
With a penny to pay the old baker.
A hop and a scotch
Is another notch,
Slitherum, slatherum, take her.
I Saw A Ship A Sailing
The captain was a duck
With a packet on his back,
And when the ship began to move
The captain said, Quack! Quack!
Said the Duck to the Kangaroo,
Good gracious! How you hop!
Over the fields and the water too,
As if you never would stop!
My life is a bore in this nasty pond,
And I long to go out in the world beyond!
I wish I could hop like you!'
Said the duck to the kangaroo.'
Please give me a ride on your back!'
Said the Duck to the Kangaroo.'
I would sit quite still, and say nothing but "Quack,"
The whole of the long day through!
And we'd go to the Dee, and the Jelly Bo Lee,
Over the land and over the sea;
'Please take me a ride! O do!'
Said the Duck to the Kangaroo.
Said the Kangaroo to the Duck,
This requires some little reflection;
Perhaps on the whole it might bring me luck,
And there seems but one objection,
Which is, if you'll let me speak so bold,
Your feet are unpleasantly wet and cold,
And would probably give me the roo-
Matiz!' said the Kangaroo.
Said the Duck,'
As I sat on the rocks,
I have thought over that completely,
And I bought four pairs of worsted socks
Which fit my webfeet neatly.
And to keep out the cold I've bought a cloak,
And every day a cigar I'll smoke,
All to follow my own dear true
Love of a Kangaroo?
Said the Kangaroo, I'm ready!
All in the moonlight pale;
But to balance me well, dear duck, sit steady!
And quite at the end of my tail!'
So away they went with a hop and a bound,
And they hopped the whole world three times round;
And who so happy,-O who,
As the duck and the Kangaroo?
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