ABC Wednesday
October 25th, 2017
The letter is P for Polliwog

Do you remember,

or did you ever

bring a bucket of frog spawn home with you

from the lake, or the pond???

And then watch it,

day by day, as the eggs developed into tadpoles

and then the tadpoles into

polliwogs.

The word "polliwog" comes from the old English

"polwygle"

Pol meaning head

and Wygle - to wiggle.

And how they do wiggle!!

Here is a nice poem by Albert Garcia

entitled "Frog Eggs'

They started as a small slime

of black dots.  After

wading through the pond

you and the boys,

sloshing a plastic bucket,

poured brackish water

into a clear bowl, and there

they were, a little jelly packet

of lives that grew daily

under our magnifying glass.

They're turning flat,

you tell me as you peer in

this afternoon, and I admit

I'm as caught up in this

as the boys who announce

any wiggle, any sign

of the tail, legs, gills.

But I'm content

to watch you watch the eggs, you

hovering over the bowl,

hair encircling your face

like dark ferns surrounding a pool

before a waterfall,

holding, accentuating the light.


and a light video on the life of a frog
hosted by Kermit!!!

There must be something to be said
for those lazy, hazy
polliwog days!!!

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