Elephant

ABC Wednesday
February 8th, 2017
The letter is E for Elephant

 Here is a little offering to celebrate the elephant

in nonsense verse

Eletelephony

Once there was an elephant,

who tried to use the telephant -

No! no! I mean the elephone

Who tried to use the telephone -

(Dear me! I am not certain quite

That even now I've got it write.)

Howe'er it was, he got his trunk

Entangled in the telephunk;

The more he tried to get it free,

The louder buzzed the telephee -

(I fear I'd better drop the song

of elephop and telephong!)

Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

Laura Richards was an American writer of the late 19th century

who published more than ninety books, and was best known for the nonsense poems

 she created for children.

Laura Richard's father was Samuel Gridlely Howe, who ran the 

Perkins Institute for the Blind

where Helen Keller and Laura Bridgman were educated.

Her mother, Julia Ward Howe, 

wrote the words to the famous song

"The Battle Hymn of the Republic"

When Laura Richards grew up she and her sister

wrote a biography of their mother

that won a Pulitzer prize.

One of Richard's best books of nonsense poetry is called Tirra Lirra.

The poems use techniques like rhythm, alliteration

and startling imagery

to tell an imaginative story.

and they are downloadable.......

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