Oh! The Places We’ve Been!
(After Dr. Seuss)
By Lorelei Kay, High Desert Branch
Oh! The places we’ve been, hiking boots, you and I.
The adventures we’ve shared ‘neath a world-colored sky.
Together we’ve hiked through marshlels and muck,
Through diways and highways without getting stuck.
We’ve wadled in creek beds and rambled on rocks,
made adventures in trenchers—you’re my Birkenstocks!
Some say you look funky.
But you’ve made my feet comfy!
Tall signs posted warnings on dust-crusted trails, saying
“Slow down – don’t go fast!” through these valleys and vales.
Oh! The places we’ve gone!
We’ve trudged through pine needles and hung out on logs,
schlepped around Jeep tires and plodded through bogs.
Would we hike down a mine shaft?
Why no—don’t be daft!
We traipsed through green meadows with white-petaled flowers,
Got glovered in dirt, then took a steamed shower.
Would we hike to Cincinnati?
Now you’ve gone completely batty!
We’ve shuffled up branchlings, on moss-covered pines,
Strolled through blue due-hued grasses, and tripped on green vines.
We’ve been stuckled in glud holes when we muddled our tactics,
Got strickled and prickled when we stumbled on cactus!
We’ve conquered crackled ridges with bootiful skill,
then sprawled out on tree stumps while gulping Advil.
Boots, we’ve moved mountains!
We ambled through green fields with zigor and zest,
But like Dorothy of Oz land
found home sweet-coming home scrumptishishly best!
“Oh! The Places We’ve Been”
first appeared in the May 2018 Inkslinger,
newsletter of the High Desert Branch.
See more from Lorelie Kay on her website
FromMormonToMermaid.com.