Yo Dad Vocab #8

Today's word is scurf (scaly or shreeded dry skin).

My scurf came off in the surf
while playing with a Nerf,
so I'm looking for new turf.
Does Elche* still say "erf, erf?"

*Elche-our 15 year old dog

Yo Dad Vocab #7

Today's word is weet (to know)

It is always a bird treat
when a crow in the wheat
Gives a simple tweet-tweet
and a caw-caw so sweet.
Then you weet in the heat
he'll beat time with his feet.

Yo Dad Vocab #6

Happy Sabbath!

Today's word is ajiva (inanimate matter)

Bippo the Hippo's saliva
Is not really ever ajiva
When he goes to the pool
Huge lips starting to drool,
Attempting a belly-flop diva.

Grandpa, (who is always ajiva when he is watching tennis on TV)

Yo Dad Vocab #5

Today's word is plew (beaver skin)

A hunter named Lou
Went to the Bronx zoo
To find a blue plew
On a beaver where it grew.
He didn't have a clue
That this was taboo
And a hostile zoo crew
Wouldn't let him through.
Now Lou is in a big stew.
He boo-hooed, wouldn't you?

Grandplew

Yo Dad Vocab #4

Today's word is ohing (to exclaim in surpirse, pain, or desire.)


Amazingly while I was rowing
Past a whale that was blowing
I saw a knowing crow crowing
At a small Apache chief sewing
A loin cloth that was flowing,
For a rich guru without knowing
How much he would be owing.
No wonder I kept oh, ohing.

Grandpa


ohing because his debts were growing

Yo Dad Vocab #3

Today's word is smaze (an atmospheric mixture of smoke and haze).

I stand all amazed
And am really quite dazed
When I gaze at cows graze
Out in fields filled with smaze
In these smoky latter days.

Yo Dad Vocab #2

Today's word is moue (a small grimace or pout)

Amazing scenes, I have seen quite a few
During my lifetime looking back for a view.
A lame horse wearing an open-toed shoe.
I've heard a few ugly ghosts screech Boo!
Many gorgeous purple cows go moo, moo.
An enormous blue whale when he blew,
And once a caribou at the zoo go achoo!
Witnessed a gangly blue gnu go whew, too.
Even a few Siberian choo-choos go choo.
But of all those amazing things I review,
I've never seen you moue and that's true.