Blue-Ribbon Gal

This pig is a beauty, you see that it’s true,

Clippety-cloppety, troppety-slop.

As gentle and light as the morning’s first dew,

Slippety-stroppety, flippety-clop.

 

I noticed her first at a pig beauty show,

Oinkety-boinkety, shuffely-huff.

She twirled a baton and she sang like a pro,

Oinkety-ploinkety, truffley-stuff.

 

She’s graceful and smooth for a pig of her size,

Squealety-mealety, chunkety-shove.

She won a blue ribbon! She. won the big prize!

Wheelety-flop, I’m in piggety love.

 

This poem is from the book, Flashy, Clashy, and Oh-So Splashy (poems about color) by: Laura Purdie Salas