Chirpy Dirges

Eloise Emerald's Adventures In The Grass, Book 3

So fearsome frog, thanatomanic & flippant flies,
plus our foxhaired heroine, were all hoicked up by
ankle-fankle hamstringing Ludo's volant liberty.

Weeze accordioned by the wrench, but holding fast
to rescue Dodo from pond's sepia grasp,
tho' other tongue-towed captor, Cribbage - on the cusp

of turd-tarsied brunch - proved as limpet-
like thru turfed aloft . Our motley quartet
squealed in gravitydefying disarray (l/ a kite

tail thru the shredder, or the leaning totempole
of Piza blasting off). Subitaneously as a squall
dying down, the 4 fauna plummeted into a pile

(tho' not as in haemmorhoid, which tends to stay put),
for again the recondite heaveho upon Ludo's foot-
shackle of scacchic fabric was intermittent,

their fall cushioned by a rosette of chickweed
(indebting Eloise to horticultural sloth of her dad).
'You 3 flies are for it! My beautiful skin's gonna get all dried

out, plucked from clamniotic clamminess
of my hydrating home. Cerise 
noose my mouth shoots dislodged from crinigerous

crawler of your pal's, but I've fluked a 3-course meal!'
Thus Cribbage ribbited, hunting tongue poised to uncoil.
'Alaz, out of the fryingpan into the engineroom of Hell,'

Dodo unpaused jeremiad which seemed his sole theme.
'Yez, a fly in the prime of his month falling victim
to forkfaced fate, an anuran glutton shadygreen...'

Before Dipteran diva, Dodo, waxed max mortido,
simultaneously, unceremoniously Ludo
& Weeze bid him cork his proboscis pronto!

Dodo suitably dehorted, to swattergobbed insectivore
wily Weeze turned: 'Mr.Cribbage, er, Cribby, are you sure
you wanna eat me? I'm unlike a fly you've scoffed before.
 
Why, mark my unusual auburn noggin;
fact I've only got 4 limbs & they're sarcoline;
or my antonymically unflyly anatomy unwinged!'
 
'So what? You're a peaches 'n' marmalade beetle;
 I'm a famished amphibian: any bugsize morsel
suffices!  What's a couple of limbs uncoupled
 
by some snotnosed colossos in Peppa Pig dungarees?'
'Ain't 'auburn' euphemism for clementine tresses,
betacarotene crowns of ginge ex-giantesses?'
 
Ludo mussitatedly buzzed, usual acid aside.
'Ribbit! Besides the flyvour of those 2 should disguise
gank gulp of copperknob beetle.'  Weeze tried
 
a fresh tack on the ferocious frog: ' C'mon, Cribbage,
you don't wanna dine on flies, we're motes of sewage!'
'Au contraire, kneecap clagnits are most lush garnish!'
 
But as the limnophile licked his lack of lips,
another anuran croaked rather than ribbited, 'O Cribs,
darlink, you swore you'd reserve me 2nd dibs
 
on any 6legged snack your hops chanced upon,
but you hid this private pantry apart from the pond!'
This inculpating arrival? Tummyupsetter of herons
 
& Cribbage's civil partner, knobbly filemot Pontoon
the Toad. Thru the blades waddled his bulk backybrown
to chastise Cribbage w/ webbed slap around

the frog's forestcoloured chops. 'Ribbit, lovvie,
I wasn't hogging them hexapods, just flipping lucky
thru a lucky flip. But more choice cuisses de grenouille

I'd make being leggy 1, true. Jel some?'  riposted
Cribbage. 'You put fib in amphibian! You're so busted,
darlink, croak!' 'Lovvie, ribbit, this rhubarb 'n' custard,

charmingly disabled beetle was gonna be my
quaint lovetoken - surprise!' 'Bah, pondscum porkiepies,
croak ,darlink!' Meanwhile, Eloise & the flies

had exploited this spat 'tween overgrown pollywiggles
& commenced Operation Slinkoff, till there swiveled
monocular sideeye at their subtle skedaddle. 

'Ooo, lovvie, look! The insects are making l/ a tree!
Say, no gimcrack natterjack is depriving me
of those munchies from heaven,' truculently

vowed Cribbage.  'You fern-nightingale phoney, croak,
I'll show you!' was Pontoon the Toad's rebuke.
'Mid standoff between poundland Baron Greenbacks,

Weeze, Ludo & Dodo were trapped; the trio froze.
But as bickering amphibians geckoed their oral arrows,
they brushed their viscoelastic salivary glue,  

which adhered them together in a cartoonish
dustup, tongues cat's-cradling further in the twist
of their ire at slapstick crossfire. Frog & toad lisped

recriminations unintelligibly fro & to,
before a series of tongue tug of wars ensued,
culminating in a bellybump-off of slimy sumoes,
 
Cribbage & Pontoon, their relationship in tatters.
'Hey, I wonder if they'll ever get back together?
Anyone got any poopcorn?' Ludo nosed, the probey parker.
 
'Gah, you're soppy as a lorryload of seahorses,'
rubbernecking fly was by Eloise admonished.
 'They're literally tonguetied: 's our cue to vanish!'
 
Thru straggly viridity of Mr.Emerald's lawn
(left to fallow since last year, which is floral form
of 'feral'), as faraway from Cribbage & Pontoon
 
as poss flies scuttled, behind Weeze who tore & tussled
a path thru the sward before glottal muscles
of green drama queens got unknotted. Several
 
pell-mell minutes of graminomachic judo
chops later, when these 3 fleers couldn't catch row
of lisped ribbits & lisped croaks,  Ludo,
       Dodo