Logic In Rhyme 5 Poem by Kim Barney

Kim Barney

Kim Barney

I was born in a bank - - my mother went there and made a deposit

Logic In Rhyme 5

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(21)
Kim, said a friend to me,
I don't see how this could be:
A riddle has been proposed
by someone who says he knows
the answer, he has sworn.
What walks on four legs in the morn,
then two at noon, and three at eve?
This is a tough one, I believe.

(22)
I threw a ball hard as I could.
It came right back; I knew it would.
No one caught and threw it back;
it bounced off nothing, that's a fact.
It wasn't tied to rubber band
or any other trick so bland
but freely sailed quite unattached
and very promptly it came back.
Now think about it: can you tell
how I performed this trick so well?

(23)
If you had a hole
four feet deep
by four feet square
how many cubic feet
of dirt would be in there?

[Try to solve them before looking for the answers in 'Poet's Notes about the Poem'.]

Logic In Rhyme 5
Wednesday, December 24, 2014
Topic(s) of this poem: logic
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
(21)
This riddle was written by Sophocles in his story of Oedipus Rex. The answer is 'man'. In the morning of his life (when he is a baby)he crawls ('four legs') , as an adult he walks on two, and later in life he uses a cane as a third leg.

(22)
I threw the ball straight up into the air.

(23)
There is no dirt in the area described; otherwise it wouldn't be a hole.

written 02 November 2014
Recife, Pernambuco, Brasil

deleted 24 December 2014 and resubmitted to get rid of the soundtrack added by PH against my wishes

Picture changed 15 May 2016 because I wanted to use the picture that was here on my new poem called THE WELL IS DRY. Actually that poem is not new but has never been published before. It was written in June 2015 while I was still in Brazil.
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Dr Pintu Mahakul 24 December 2014

Wonderful logic in rhyme. Beautiful presentation makes this special.

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I was born in a bank - - my mother went there and made a deposit
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