Ashley is the strangest kid
that you have ever seen.
The reason is the girl’s obsession
with the colour green.
Her socks and shoes and all her clothes
are green as green can be.
When looking at her books and pens,
yes, green is all you see.
Her pillows, sheets, her bedspread too,
her rug, her desk, her blind,
they are the greenest greeny green
that you will ever find.
It makes me nervous all this green!
It worries me at night!
For I am Ashley’s little dog,
and so far, I’m still white.
This poem was first published in 2001 in The New Toe: Poems To Tickle Your Funnybone.
The Lonely Meatball 
I liked this one, too. We had some neighbors that raised purebred standard poodles. They were constantly dying the white ones’ hair so we had a rainbow of poodles next door for a while. A rainbow of poodles? There’s a phrase you don’t hear every day.
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A murder of crows, a parliament of owls, a drift of hogs, an exultation of larks, a rainbow of poodles! It fits right in and definitely works!
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lol!😅
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Ashley’s little dog should be green with envy because green really is the best color.
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I agree. My den has really green walls. It’s uplifting!
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It is the color of life in nature.
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Cue the Heaviest Pie Competition song “Somewhere Over The Rainbow, Weigh a Pie.”
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My granddaughter went through a green phase too… her family is very much into being ‘green’ so maybe that was her way of showing it.
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My mom did our house in greens and blues. When I had my den painted green years later, it never occurred to me until much later that Mom’s den had been green as well. Parents sure have an influence!
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My boyfriend would probably feel at home in this poem, he loves green
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I do too. It’s a calming colour.
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