Last night, I had insomnia. Not a wink of sleep could I get!
While unable to sleep, I wrote my pawful poem, Yellow Dogs Can Read, and drew the pawful drawing to illustrate it! The inspiration for both comes from Melissa’s Fandango Flash Fiction Challenge #294 to write something inspired by the photo below.
The prompt’s image depicts a yellow dog wearing eyeglasses and lying on a bed, with his front paws resting on the pages of an open book. In the background, we see a white wall with two windows, a white curtain draped over one of them.
Yellow Dogs Can Read
Yellow dogs can read, you know,
But their eyesight’s rather paw,
My favourite tail of all
Is The Hound of the Baskervilles
by Arthur Conan Doyle,
I prefer a scary read
To playing with my ball—
Or burying a bone in soil.
Is that strange?
Nothing beats
A dog-eared book,
Or a library book exchange,
Right now, I’m reading this,
The Nightmare before Christmas,
with Jack Skellington
And his ghost dog Zero,
I love a paperback—
Telling a tail
About a canine hero.
I’d like to end this rhyme,
But look, I haven’t got the time.
It’s amazing how time passes,
It just goes poof!
When absorbed inside a book…
Woof! I bark,
Have you seen my glasses?
I must go now for my walk,
You know what owners are,
They walk you round the block,
Then off we go by car.
Lesley Scoble, November 2024
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thank you, Melissa, for the entertaining prompt to keep me awake in my insomnia!
The photo for the prompt is from Samson Katt on Pexels.
Thank you, dear reader, for reading! If you got this far, the yellow dog and I congratulate you.
Lesley lives in the City of London Square Mile. An artist, actor and sculptor (her first ceramic sculpture won the V&A inspired by… Award). Scenic artist & book illustrator, playwright (her musical play, Rapscallion performed in inner city schools and theatre school); TV dancer; mime artist; Animator and illustrator for TV production. Set up Pinecone Studios Ltd and IIMSI Ltd drama and filmmaking workshops in London – producing award-winning films made by children.
LesleyScoble.com 
Leave a reply to Nancy (The Sicilian Storyteller) Cancel reply