Jiving In The Jungle

Jiving in the Jungle Zulu was a zebra who loved zapping on his zither Roger the rhinoceros rattled his rattler with raucous rigour Leo a leonine lion loved to languorously play his lute And Flavia the flaming flamingo fluttered flirtatiously on her flute These beasts were boldly bashing and belligerently banging Cavorting capriciously, in clamorous chorus they were clanging Deafening decibels were with deliberation being delivered Surrounding shiny, shimmering shrubs shuddered, shook and shivered Bella the blindingly bewitching butterfly blithely blew on her bassoon Thomas the odd toed tapir tooted a lively tune on his tromboon Ella Elephant elegantly and efficiently whirled her trunk And Placido the Platypus played a Pulalu with a pleasant plunk Suddenly the strident symphony was silenced in a second Bob the boa constrictor had drawn forth his baton as a weapon Then through the still night air floated a pure sweet sound Meerkat Molly mellifluously, melodiously and mellowly from her mound Sang sorrowfully and sadly of a tale from a time long past Of a meerkat who met a meerkat, but their love it didn’t last The members of the orchestra listened and they wept But then they cranked it up again and started off from whence they’d left (Sydney, Australia - 2009) Alessandra Liverani