My Frog Was in an Accident
My frog was in an accident.
He broke a rib today.
He’s toadally unhoppy and
his rib—it’s not okay.
I took him to the hopspital
to fix the rib he broke.
He’ll need a hopperation now.
Without it, he might croak.
The doctor’s hoptimistic
he’ll be playing hop-scotch soon,
or jumping on a toadstool
by this Fly-day afternoon.
This story should be ribbiting,
but just in case it’s not,
the reason that I told it was…
Oh, sorry, I frogot.
— Kenn Nesbitt
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Reading Level: Grade 4
Topics: Animal Poems, Wordplay
Poetic Techniques: Anthropomorphism & Personification, Narrative Poems, Pun Poems, Wordplay
Word Count: 87
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