Welcome, Guest: Register On Nairaland / LOGIN! / Trending / Recent / New
Stats: 3,153,570 members, 7,820,049 topics. Date: Tuesday, 07 May 2024 at 09:03 AM

Who Crowned You? Poem - Literature - Nairaland

Nairaland Forum / Entertainment / Literature / Who Crowned You? Poem (575 Views)

(2) (3) (4)

(1) (Reply)

Who Crowned You? Poem by navymii(m): 5:14pm On Oct 06, 2012
Once upon a still night in a tropical african jungle
The animals gathered and they began to rumble
All were gathered except one
The lion, the supreme one

Amidst the cacophony of beastly voices
Cackles,bays,yelps and other such noises
There was a unifying undertone
In the assembly beside the great black stone

Who crowned him king?
Trumpeted the elephant with a violent ring
He isn't the largest
Nay, not in this forest

He isn't the deadliest either
Hissed the irritated viper
Spewing out his fork like tongue
In a vicious monologue

He isn't even the fastest
The cheetah was quick to attest
So tell me why he rules
And makes the rest of us look like fools

He's also not the wisest, the tortoise drawled
Quick to defend the slow pace at which he crawled
And pointing to his wit
To raise his shoulders a little bit

More and more the animals spoke
Terrestrial,arboreal and aerial the silence broke
Declaring in unprecedented consonance
Their opposition to leonine dominance

Just at that moment,the hawk came swooping down
He's coming, He's coming, who wears the crown
And in the distance, they heard a deafening roar
Almost like thunder before a heavy downpour

And just like that, the meeting fell apart
As they all hurried to depart
The folly of the question now evident
To the rebelling dissidents
Re: Who Crowned You? Poem by Cuddlemii: 5:18pm On Oct 06, 2012
Lolz, the topic looks like poem crowned you!

Don't mind me, I will read it now smiley

(1) (Reply)

An Abomination / What Time Is It? / Is "Off" An Adjective Or A Prepostion In This Statement

(Go Up)

Sections: politics (1) business autos (1) jobs (1) career education (1) romance computers phones travel sports fashion health
religion celebs tv-movies music-radio literature webmasters programming techmarket

Links: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10)

Nairaland - Copyright © 2005 - 2024 Oluwaseun Osewa. All rights reserved. See How To Advertise. 10
Disclaimer: Every Nairaland member is solely responsible for anything that he/she posts or uploads on Nairaland.