Once upon a time
There lived a very nerdy boy
His given name was Dustin
But he preferred to be called Roy
He wantd to rule a city
And he once came very close
But happily he was stopped
By a penguin we all know
This very special penguin
Had the pretty name of Mary
She was a lot like other penguins
Except for one thing: she was a fairy
And one day she was called
To a place called Norristown
Where she was told there was a nerd
Who needed to be brought down
The nerd's name was Roy
And he was shooting people for fun
"With what?" the penguin Mary asked
She was gravely told, "His torpedo gun."
"Oh no!" thought Mary sadly
"He can't take people's lives!
And in order to stop this monster,
To Norristown I must fly!"
So she headed to Pennsylvania
To contravene this man
And when she arrived, she fetched a friend--
A zoo penguin called Dan
They found Roy in a flower store
Sneezing on the tulips
Around him were the bodies
Of several fainted kids
This infuriated Mary,
For she really loved the young
So she walked up to the villain
Without any trepidation
Mary took his hefty gun
While he was not looking
But the gun weighed quite a lot
And it fractured her right wing
Mary felt such extreme pain
Like she had never felt before
It was so incredibly bad
That she almost left the store
But Mary stayed, for she knew
That his misconduct must soon cease
So she used her fairy powers
To restore the peace
Roy the nerd was sent to jail
(Eighty years without parole)
And Mary was nearly done restoring kids
When along came the animal patrol
The penguin-catchers came
And took Mary and Dan to the zoo
A keeper with an ingrown toenail
Came once a day to give them food
So that is the sad story
Of how Mary was put behind bars
And to find out what happens next
You don't have to go too far:
http://storywrite.com/story/50649
Author notes
The original idea came from this poem:
http://allpoetry.com/poem/2122558
The words I used in the order I used them:
penguin, torpedo, contravene, sneeze (sneezing), tulip (tulips), trepidation, hefty, frature (fractured), misconduct, ingrown
A contest entry
- Can you put my penguin behind bars? by Susan E. Pennycuff.
600 points, ended March 4, 2007, 9 entries
Honorable mention
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
What do you think?
Comments
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Nice! I love it!


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A very good story-telling poem
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Wow this is so supercoooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!! It would be fun to make this into a children's book. That would truly be awesome. Great write, yo.


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wow... who would of thought that a penguin in jail could inspire a story idea, I am impressed. thank you for entering this contest and best of wishes in the judging phase!


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Amazing job Ker. Love it so much! So niftily swell. Love it. Great write. Good luck!
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