contagious
May 20, 2009
I might not be the brightest kid
I know I’m not courageous
but that awful bird and swine thing,
is really quite contagious
I think I might have caught it,
so I need to ask some things.
Will my nose get long and piglike,
and my shoulders sprout out wings?
I guess I shouldn’t worry,
and make a big tadoo,
because all that would happen
the same day that swine flu.
WHEN SWINE FLU
I might not be the brightest kid,
I know I’m not courageous,
but that awful bird and swine thing,
is really quite contagious!
I think I might have caught it,
so I need to ask some things.
Will my nose become all piglike,
and my shoulders sprout out wings?
I guess I shouldn’t worry,
and make a big to-do,
because those things would happen,
the same day that “swine flu”.
– Linda Silvestri
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This week’s Illustration Friday prompt is (oddly (0;) “Contagious.”
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May 20, 2009 at 12:21 am
Wow!
This is my favorite on this topic. Idea and execution are absolutely perfect!
May 20, 2009 at 2:13 am
Really great image – I love it!
May 20, 2009 at 2:24 am
Great idea. Original.
May 20, 2009 at 3:07 am
Oh I love the piggies, twisting and turning in the air!x
May 20, 2009 at 4:05 am
Such a great response! Love your pigs–they’re too cute to be dangerous!
May 20, 2009 at 5:00 am
Wonderful words and delightful drawing.
Top take on the theme.
May 20, 2009 at 5:12 am
Awesome Linda! Great perspective too. Poor little piggies :o)
May 20, 2009 at 7:13 am
Tee hee hee… when pigs fly… hee hee
Your piggies are adorable, albeit a bit bumpy. A little Calamine might help or even cover considering they’re already pink!!
Clever prose Linda… as excellent as ever!
May 20, 2009 at 7:22 am
I’m so glad I wasn’t the only one who thought of swine flu… even if your is so much funnier! So glad to be back reading your blog, it never fails to give me a good laugh 😀
May 20, 2009 at 9:27 am
That is pretty funny…great illustration…
May 20, 2009 at 9:51 am
Well, uplifting, to say the least!!! Brilliant, I love it! : )
May 20, 2009 at 10:04 am
Absolutely hilarious! Those piggies are awesome!
May 20, 2009 at 10:52 am
nice drawing
i like
May 20, 2009 at 12:22 pm
Oh yeah, the little ditty is pretty right on. You r getting to be quite the writer.
May 20, 2009 at 1:17 pm
Heh, so that’s what they mean by “Hog Heaven”. Delightful treatment and that poem is a keeper (as opposed to the underwhelming flu itself).
May 20, 2009 at 2:58 pm
Brilliant Linda! and you’ve also managed to make those poor infected piggies look elegant and beautiful! wonderful work..
May 20, 2009 at 8:42 pm
Truly inspired! There is a flying pig in Topanga 🙂
May 20, 2009 at 8:48 pm
Absolutely adorable! Great poem too.
May 20, 2009 at 9:33 pm
Linda, they look so happy and graceful. Great way to colour their bodies, too.
May 20, 2009 at 9:39 pm
Oh I love this! Well done! 🙂
May 20, 2009 at 10:20 pm
Such a poet you are . . .
May 20, 2009 at 10:50 pm
oh you are so funny and clever (love the limerick and the celestial piggies).
my hubby got his side of the plane quarantined in japan because he had the sniffles, he swore he wasn’t packing any piggies in his luggage.
May 21, 2009 at 12:38 am
Hi,
I really love your pink sunny angel piggies flying so freely up the sky:)
Beautiful!
Hop and fly!
Saying bye from Malaysia!
Take care sketchout!
May 21, 2009 at 8:56 am
I’m pretty sure you’re my most clever friend ever!!
I haven’t done the past 2 “IF”s and I’m having withdrawl. Hopefully this week.
Thank God I can come here and get my fix!!
I love this 🙂
xoxo
May 21, 2009 at 10:13 am
Wonderful as always,they are lovely and their expression are angelic
May 21, 2009 at 5:18 pm
SKETCHIE!!! is that redhead with the toonie, YOU, with those awesome curls? and do they just DO that for you, naturally? wow! you lucky lucky puppy! i suppose i’d be the um, post pool version of you. red, but not nearly as bouncy, kind of long and droopy red. not a curl in sight. “))
love love this trio o spotted piggies! ‘specially their tapered piggie feet! 🙂
May 21, 2009 at 8:21 pm
Oooh.. the fun is contagious. Great idea, and a very creative twist. The little flappy wings are super cute. Am I seeing things, or have you been using some digital brushes? Digital, or not, your work is always fantastic Linda, and you may have created the next culinary treat. Bacon wings!
May 22, 2009 at 1:10 am
What a wonderful flying pigs!
I love this illo
🙂
May 22, 2009 at 7:14 am
I never got around to doing ‘contagious’, but i was thinking swine flu too! but your take is much better than the one I had in my head 🙂
May 23, 2009 at 5:56 am
Love it! LOL! “Swine Flu” is so much cooler than “when pigs fly” Great drawing!
May 25, 2009 at 9:37 am
I was sure to find here the most creative!!!!!!!
May 26, 2009 at 2:43 pm
Excellent!
May 28, 2009 at 7:52 am
Awesome! Art and poetry- rocks
May 29, 2009 at 7:27 am
Seriously!! I hope you are putting a book together with all your poems and artwork..right? right?!?
June 2, 2009 at 7:31 pm
Hahaha! great verse, I guess that will happen when “swine flu” cheers from the land of the swine-human flu 😀 bye.
June 6, 2009 at 7:18 am
you are SO talented….you need to publish an illustrated book of poems !!!! 🙂
July 10, 2009 at 4:53 am
Oh pinky pinky pigs flying with their little wings, hearts shape drawn in my eyes, ignoring the swellings on their bodies, ^o^!
You’re so good in interpreting words! Love the poem so much!