Toad Songs

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Have you heard the Toads 

in the Garden?

They are all sweetly singing.

In the garden, Toads,

singing sweetly - 

how we will miss them.

We will miss the Garden Toads;

their songs gladdened our hearts.

Our gladdened hearts will remember

our Pond years with gratitude.

We Toads sing our gratitude

to Kerry, our Head Toad.

Never has a Toad sung 

more sweetly

than she.

From our lily pads, we sing

Toad praises forever.

Thank you and thank you

for all the poems in this Garden.

Never has a froggy Pond

sounded so sweet.

The singing grows fainter;

eventide draws near.

Thank you and thank you

for every Toad song.

for Kim's prompt at Real Toads: to write a poem in the repeatitive style of Wendy Cope's "The Uncertainty of the Poet". A thank you to Kerry and all the Toads in the Imaginary Garden, for almost-ten years of writing prompts that grew our poems and stretched our hearts and souls.