Submissions are invited of poetry to commemorate the life and mourn the death of DS2's guinea pig

[Threadworm]

Died yesterday after a mercifully short illness.

In Memoriam

So, farewell then
Beetle.
That was not your real name.

Internet paranoia has made me choose
An alias.
And Keith's mum says that Beetle is
A very good name
For a guinea pig.

Especially one that was black and fat.
That was probably what killed you.
Being so fat
I mean.

E. J. Thread, aged 17 and a half.

Love this thread - just been given a link on my Guinbea Pig mourning thread. I am no peot but this one is for my Ruby.

Little pink ears.
Nut-brown fur.
Comical whistler.
Ruby.
You were.

I am no typist either

Just found one of my g-pigs dead in the run . I felt I had to commemorate him here.....

Rest in peace snowy white Spike,
Off to hutch heaven towards the bright light,
I was sad for a while when I tucked your lonesome little pal into her bed,
Then cheered up when I realised I could do a piggy poem on this MN thread .

Just found this again and has me rolling with teary laughter (also again).

Even my own efforts were shockingly good not bad.

Wonder if Daisy Goodwin saw this thread?

@pagwatch...

very Dorothy Sayers. Had me i tears of laughter, baby looking at me as though deranged, toddler laughing but not realy knowing why.

Spike
You were, like
A cool cavy.

i have just read this thread in tears from laughing so hard, amid my children looking at me like i have gone off and wondering what the hell i am laughing at!

I can't believe I missed this the first time round Am crying with laughter at my desk (and also really quite moved by schneebly's poem above).