Ph: Humor: Tend Your Spinach - Rev 2 Poem by Brian Johnston
Ph: Humor: Tend Your Spinach - Rev 2
Oh when I was a child I loved Popeye cartoons,
Guess there’s no real accounting for any kid’s taste,
But you always knew spinach was up Popeye’s sleeve,
And that bullies like Brutus would soon be disgraced.
“Just deserts! ” to all thugs what the world hungers for,
“In the kisser! ” whatever their color or stripe,
“Missing spinach” like kryptonite something to fear,
Till at last Popeye sucks in its green through his pipe.
But it’s Popeye’s resourcefulness that saves the day
And the vegetable really a means to an end,
For the spinach is mindless, along for the ride,
So though green stuff is “good”, maybe “best” is a friend!
September 23,2015
wonderful, the second Popeye theme poem encountered in the last ten minutes, all power to Spinach!
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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I ALMOST didn’t leave a comment tonight. I wasn’t sure what to say. I mean ‘I loved’ Olive Oyl, Popeye’s girlie, but I didn’t ‘love’ this poem. BUT, I like some of its concepts and I like the rhyming. I think it could be polished up. and the use of “befall” seemed strange to me; I mean the sentence structure, BUT it seems it ‘may be’ grammatically correct and that I’m just not used to reading ‘befall’ in sentences. I love’ taste/disgraced. the spinach/kryptonite mention could be cryptic [[get it? ]] for some readers who were not brought up on Popeye, Superman, and Captain Kangaroo! brian, who COULD account for your taste in ADULTHOOD? ! why, you seem to like ME. now, THAT is strange! and, like “spinach”, I (bri) am “mindless” and along for the ride. How about putting “each” in front of “color and stripe”? AND maybe for the last line: “Yet if spinach is good, what’s better’s a friend! ” ? maybe? thanks for sharing. pass the vinegar please. bri :) More images Olive Oyl Cartoon character Olive Oyl is a cartoon character created by E. C. Segar in 1919 for his comic strip Thimble Theatre. Wikipedia =============================================
Thanks for your suggestions Bri. I did need to spend some more time on the piece. Hope that you like the changes.