Edward J McCoul’s two poems


Neal The Surreal Seal


This real seal is not an unreal seal.

Neal, a surreal seal, is the real deal.

There is only one that is really real.

That is the real surreal seal, Neal!


Neal Is a high tight rope walking seal.

He likes to eat fish for his early meal.

He can balance nine balls with ease,

On his nose tip for crowds to please!


He can turn somersaults backward,

Dive through seven hoops forward,

Balance himself on his front flippers,

And jump rope like a flipper skipper!


He can toot a tootey toot silver tooter.

Watching him there’s nothing cuter.

He can count with an ‘Arfing’ sound

That brings laughs form all around!


At the end of the acts you can go

Up and pet Neal doing it real slow.

He feels so real and so surreal.

That is the real surreal seal, Neal!


If you want you can pretend some.

For a ride in your car he would come.

This is just a little surreal seal fun

After all he is Neal the surreal one!


Take him to that fountain in the park.

Hurry, it closes usually before dark

A fountain with three squirting layers.

Perfect for surrealistic seal players!


There he goes to the very top third tier,

Balancing himself on his nose. Oh dear!

He loves to perform that is quite clear.

He is just having seal fun with you near!


It’s time to take Neal back for his bath.

He has a routine in this surreal aftermath.

He may really have a Neal bath for real.

That is in the real not the Neal surreal!


Sometimes it is not really easy to tell

When a seal is a real or an unreal deal,

Except if it is the real surreal seal, Neal.

Either way to your imagination he appeals!

Middle Piddle Riddle


Riddle piddle is where you find the middle.

This is best left up to the one called Little.

Little takes its friends to the middle piddle.

There they sit a little with Little in the middle,

Staring at the piddle that is a middle riddle!


Little discovered the middle riddle piddle,

One day when Hiddle gave Little a scribble.

This was a unique diddle scribble from Ibble.

It was an Ibble map blibble diddle scribble,

Showing the riddle piddle right in the middle!


Off little Little went to find the middle riddle  

Piddle holding the middle map blibble diddle

Scribble from Ibble given to him by Hiddle.

Little met a friend, Mittle, who loves riddles,

Mittle and Little went to the riddle piddle!


In the riddle middle there playing a fiddle,

Was Giddle singing, Piddle, middle piddle

in the middle, you look like a pickle a little,

Shaped like a fiddle a little in the riddle middle.

Oh, middle riddle we sit before you a little!


We heard, as we sat pondering and musing,

What sounded like someone was moving.

When right in the middle of the piddle, a little

Door opened in the riddle piddle’s little middle.

Out came a tiny little piddle Nittle grinning .


What brings you to my piddle in the middle?

I looked at Giddle and Mittle; We said, A riddle

Piddle middle search using a map bibble diddle

Scribble from Ibble given to Little by Hiddle.

We did not mean to stare at your riddle piddle!


Nittle jumped out of the Piddle followed by Sittle,

A small pet zittle from the land of Beezle Zneezle.

This is unheard of coming without Pleazzle’s

Permission. He is the mighty middle Feezzle.

I am guardian of this rare middle piddle riddle!


I guard it for Pleazzle along with my little pet zittle.

If I were you I would go before the Feezzle sees

You, and seizes you, and freezes you. Geezzoo!

Mittle, Giddle and I formed a circle in the middle.

We diddled and fiddled with our thoughts a little!


We decided it best to leave the riddle piddle

In the middle for the Feezzle Pleezzle and Nittle,

And his little Beezzle Zeezzle Zittle named Sittle.

We found ourselves in a middle riddle ‘pickle’,

We decided to skeedaddle and head to Seattle!


Edward J McCoul is a retired language arts teacher. He loves to write inspirational and humorous poems, song lyrics, and thought provoking short stories. He has authored several poetry books. You can find out more about Edward and his books on his Facebook page.

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