Comment from Spitfire

Excellent

lol all I could think about was Shakespeare' shrew so went
back to your definition. shades of Dr. Seuss here. Great use of color. Cruel way to get rid of shrew.

 Comment Written 10-Mar-2018

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reply by the author on 10-Mar-2018

No shrews were harmed in this poem.

Comment from jppoet

Good

While I enjoyed most of your whacky word play and persiflage, some of it
seems in disarray and evaded me. Your rhymes, perhaps forced here and there, were rich, though its metrical cadences could have been more musical.

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 Comment Written 10-Mar-2018

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reply by the author on 10-Mar-2018

Thanks, jp, for taking time to give this worthless poem a review. Bill

Comment from Joan E.

Excellent

Thank you for sharing your fun with "odd usage," rhymes, dialog and the little creatures. Your poem reminds me that we are having a nutria invasion in California--they are rodents, the size of dogs--and we need to figure out how to capture them! Here's to peace!! -Joan

 Comment Written 10-Mar-2018

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reply by the author on 10-Mar-2018

Thanks, Joan. Good luCockroach with the rodents.

Comment from Ulla

Excellent

hahahah, Bill, I love it. What a well composed poem and so clever to the boot. So that's how you catch a shrew? Very clever I might say. You always manage to put a smile on my face. All the best. Ulla:))

 Comment Written 09-Mar-2018

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reply by the author on 09-Mar-2018

Thanks, Ulla

Comment from Teri7

Excellent

This is a very cute and humorous poem about the Shrew. You used very cute descriptive words that told us how to trap these Shrews. Blessings, Teri

 Comment Written 08-Mar-2018

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reply by the author on 08-Mar-2018

Thanks, Zteri

Comment from lyenochka

Excellent

I'm all for peace. However, don't shrews just stay outside and just die on the doorstep? I was thinking the scent of the Earl Grey may send the shrew running but having tea with one is much better than suffocating one.

 Comment Written 08-Mar-2018

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reply by the author on 08-Mar-2018

If a shrew came to my tea he would unalive.

Comment from frogbook

Excellent

OMG, I had to laugh when I saw the subject of this "World". What an imagination you have. I must ask-did you ever see "night of the Shrew?" It was an old movie you must now see for sure if u have not. It is a cult classic for my sister and I. Funny in many ways but also one of the few old movies we went back to that we remembered as scary and it still creeped us out a bit. Some, we laugh so hard because we cannot imagine why they scared us in the 1st place.

 Comment Written 08-Mar-2018

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reply by the author on 08-Mar-2018

Dogs with raggedy costumes. It scared me too.

Comment from damommy

Excellent

I like the speech impediments, and the jumped up bystander.

I don't think I'd want to leave that poor shrew in there to suffocate, though. A quick death would be kinder.

I got a chuckle from the conversation.

 Comment Written 08-Mar-2018

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reply by the author on 08-Mar-2018

Thanks, da

Comment from Dolly'sPoems

Excellent

Put the shrew in a jar? And then let him out in the wild? Not suffocate the little thing. They are tiny little creatures and I have never seen one! You took me on an adventure here Bill, love Dolly x

 Comment Written 08-Mar-2018

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reply by the author on 08-Mar-2018

Thanks, Dolly

Comment from nomi338

Excellent

You old softie. I knew you couldn't do it. In order for you to pull this off, you have to treat the shrew like it is a hostile enemy in possession of a hill that the CO just ordered you to take. Now what are you gonna do soldier? Just what I thought, Fresh shrew meat coming up.

 Comment Written 08-Mar-2018

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reply by the author on 08-Mar-2018

Shrew stew.