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Did you know that March 1 is National Pig Day? Neither did I! But here’s a poem to celebrate, anyway. It’s from Flashy, Clashy, and Oh-So Splashy: Poems About Colors (Capstone Press, 2008).
A Blue-Ribbon Gal
This pig is a beauty, you see that it’s true,
Clippety-cloppety, troppety-slop.
As gentle and light as the morning’s first dew,
Slippety-stroppety, flippety-clop.
I noticed her first at a pig beauty show
Oinkety-boinkety, shuffley-huff.
She twirled a baton and she sang like a pro
Oinkety-ploinkety, truffley-stuff.
She’s graceful and smooth for a pig of her size
Squealety-mealety, chunkety-shove
She won a blue ribbon! She won the big prize!
Wheelety-flop, I’m in piggety love.
–Laura Purdie Salas, from Flashy, Clashy, and Oh-So Splashy! (Capstone Press, 2008)
And here’s Jon Scieszka reading his True Story of the Three Little Pigs. Ha!
And for lots of wonderful poetry, don’t miss the Poetry Friday Roundup with educator Jone MacCulloch at Check It Out!
22 Responses
I’m in piggety love as well. 🙂 This reminds me of a series I did on county fair poems… oh those blue ribbon winners! Thank you, Laura. xo
No, I did not know about National Pig Day & now I’m glad I do. Your ultra-rhyming is “pig-perfect”, especially loving is “Oinkety-ploinkety, truffley-stuff.” Thanks for that “real story” too. I still have the book, so funny! Scieszka is great.
Laura, who knew there was a National Pig Day. I love Jon Scieszka’s True Story of the Three Little Pigs. I can’t believe it has been out for 25 years. I used to read the story to my students. Have you ever met Jon at either ILA or NCTE? He is quite a character.
I’ve heard him speak several times and been introduced to him a couple of times. We both read our work in a Poetry Blast at ALA one year. I’m sure he wouldn’t remember me, but yes, he is a character!
Perfect poem to celebrate National Pig Day! Love your play with words and sounds.
National Pig Day cracks me up! Just have to share: this week my grandson asked his mom, “Just what kind of a creature is Piglet?” Wait until I tell him there is a National Pig Day. LOL
Hehe! When our younger daughter was little, she asked one time, “Is that chicken the food or chicken the animal?” I’m not sure we had the heart to tell her then that they are the same thing…
Love the word play here! I’ll have to let my husband know about National Pig Day–he’s a huge fan!
National Pig Day, who knew? What a fun poem
National Pig Day…with poems like yours it will have to be about more than bacon and ham! Love all the fun with words and sounds in this poem.
This poem does make me feel guilty for loving bacon so much :>/
Very cute poem, Laura — a fun read-a-loud for kids — and Jon Scieszka’s book has been a favorite here at our house!
You had me pig, Laura. I’ve always love these “Oinkety-ploinkety, truffley-stuff” creatures. How fun! My Kindergarten poets will surely love this book!
Love what you did with your refrain in your poem, “Clippety-cloppety, troppety-slop. Slippety-stroppety, flippety-clop. Oinkety-ploinkety, truffley-stuff.” What a fun and galloping poem to recite, thanks Laura!
LOVE all your hyphenated word-sounds! OINK of approval!!
I love your pig. 🙂 Ruth, thereisnosuchthingasagodforsakentown.blogspot.com
Hurray for national pig day! As Charlotte might say, your poem is radiant! 🙂
Ah, lovely Charlotte. Thanks, Jane!
Love all the clippety-cloppety made up words. So much fun!
Thanks–it was SO hard for me to write a silly poem! I should try it more often, because I did end up liking it:>)
What a hilarious fun poem. And who knew that pigs have a day.
Right? Thanks, Jone!