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Mr. Gumphree's Key
by Allison Dupre Gill
In a green land, next to a green sea,
lived a green frog named Mr. Gumphree.
The big green frog having always lived in the green land under a green
tree never knew anything but green you see.
His home was a green log and he ate green flies.
He did not know beyond his green land a different land could lie.
He swam under a green sun and slept under a green moon
not knowing that things would change real soon.
So it goes that one day after a short swim in the green sea
Mr. Gumphree came upon a strange colored key.
He picked it up, studied it carefully, and then said,
"What a strange hue it's definitely not green. I'll call it blue."
I must find where this is from it is so different and wrong.
I will bring it back to where it came from, it certainly doesn't belong."
Mr. Gumphree decided to ask the green sea
what it knew about the blue key.
The green sea answered,
"Go to the end of the green land and there your answer will be.
Look not to the sun nor to the sea,
but wait for the moon and you will find what you seek."
Well, Mr. Gumphree had never heard of such a thing.
"End of the green land, where could that be,
but I will find it and the home of this blue key."
So along the green sea the green frog began to walk.
He walked and walked, stopping every so often to talk
to a green fish or a green hawk.
He showed them the blue key
and they said the same as the green sea.
"Go to the end of the green land and there your answer will be.
Look not to the sun or to the sea,
but wait for the moon and you will find what you seek."
For hours Mr. Gumphree walked along the green sea.
All the while thinking of the blue key.
"It's so different and wrong,
it's not green it just doesn't belong."
Just then, Mr. Gumphree looked up and saw a door.
It wasn't a green door nor was it a blue door.
Mr. Gumphree examined it and said,
"Another strange color, I'll call it red."
He saw that there was a red key in the lock of the red door.
The green frog turned the red key he had to see more.
He opened the door and saw a world he had never seen before.
"My goodness, It's a red land,
with a red sun and red sand.
This is all so new,
I'm not sure if I like this red or this blue."
Mr. Gumphree decided to walk along the red sea
determined to solve the mystery of the blue key.
He came to a red tree very much like his own.
Then out from a red log
popped a red frog.
"My goodness!" They both said as they stared curiously at one another.
Then the green frog said to the other,
"Parden me, my name is Gumphree."
He cleared his throat and scratched his head.
"I have never seen a frog that is red."
"All the frogs are red in this land.
My name is Ruckerstand."
Said the red frog as he stared at Mr. Gumphree and his green hue.
"Come with me I'll show you."
The red frog led the green frog back to the red shore
and sure enough there were four more,
four red frogs playing on the red shore.
"Beyond being red, they're just like me."
said Mr. Gumphree.
All of the red frogs stopped and stared at Mr. Gumphree.
He now felt like the blue key, out of place, different and wrong.
He didn't feel like he belonged.
The red frogs gathered around very interested in him.
"Come in Gumphree and join us for a swim."
Mr. Gumphree was very surprised and said,
"But I am not red."
"You may be a color we've never seen,
but being green can't mean
that you don't like to swim in the sea
or sleep under a tree.
Don't you like flies?
Or watching your green sun rise?"
"Why yes, yes I do," said Mr. Gumphree.
He joined Ruckstand and the other red frogs,
Rudy, Rutherford, Renee, and Rensbee
for a swim in the red sea.
After their swim, he showed them the blue key
and told them the riddle of the green sea.
"It said, look not to the sun nor to the sea,
but wait for the moon and you will find what you seek."
They all decided to walk along the shore
And look for another door.
They walk and walked until they couldn't walk anymore,
but still no door.
All of the frogs laid down to rest
as the evening sun began to crest.
Mr. Gumphree was very glad for his new friends of red
and thoughts of how much fun they had played in his head.
He was so excited he couldn't sleep.
So he went for a walk while the others counted sheep.
Mr. Gumphree walked while he whistled a tune.
Then suddenly through the trees, peeked the moon.
Mr. Gumphree stood with the moon above his head
and there it was, just as the green sea had said.
"Look to the moon and there your answer will be.
A blue door without a key!"
Mr. Gumphree was so excited he ran to wake up his new friends.
"Come, look and see.
I've found the door with no key!
Wake up friends, we must explore
the land on the other side of the blue door!"
All of the frogs of red and green came to see.
Then ran to the door to turn the key.
The key fit as planned
and they all stepped into the new blue land.
They ran in, looking for blue logs with blue frogs.
Mr. Gumphree thought about how wrong he once was,
about things being different and what doesn't belong.
How interesting the world had become and how he couldn't wait
to show his new friends the green sun.
The key to life could be easily seen.
It was making friends, no matter if they are red, blue or green.
Copyright 2004 Allison Dupre Gill
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