Ticks
Ticks, as a student, are never to be feared.
They are good for you,
mark your rites of passage,
never catch on your skin
or bite into your beard.
Ticks in the woods creep and crawl,
people really don’t like them at all.
They fall and they climb,
bring diseases like Lyme.
Leeches are bad and suck at your blood.
They swell up with your juices
as you well knew they would.
But leeches don’t kill, as tick bites might.
So get out your tweezers and squish ticks on sight.
Comment: Ticks are about. Watch out for them and be very careful with them. Announcement on CBC Radio, 19 May 2017.
rogermoorepoet 
This is educational and funny. A good poem for children.
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Grown-ups too: we apparently have a plague of them in NB. There should be something child-like about poetry: we forget that at our peril.
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Agreed, innocence is important in writing, I have always wanted to write a children’s book believe it or not.
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Me too. I think the double talent of writing and illustrating plays an important part.
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I wish I could draw, I envy you Roger.
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Anyone can draw, Mr. Cake. We think we must draw like Leonardo da Vinci, but all we need do is take a line for a walk! That’s my style of drawing.
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You are too modest and I have no talent in that direction to my infinite regret.
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OMG I LOVE this drawing! Its fantastic. right number of legs and everything. Very cute.
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Hi Judy. So good to see you here and glad you like my drawing! I’ll e-mail you.
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I’ve heard the same announcement for my part of the world and I’ve already experienced first hand that they are about!!! Yikes!
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Must be bad to have warnings on the radio. The cat doesn’t get out. So hopefully, we’ll avoid the things and the nasties that accompany them.
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Not a poem to read when I’m having lunch! 😉
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Indeed, no. I posted it just before breakfast and looked at my boiled egg with great suspicion!
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