Walt Kelly
Walt Kelly Poems
The Prince of Pompadoodle
Lived behind a castle wall.
Behind a moat, behind a guard
...
There were some wasps in our town
Who, with their wondrous wives,
They suckled at the bramble bush
...
Once you were two,
dear birthday friend.
In spite of purple weather:
...
The party of the first part
And the party of the next
Were partly participled
...
O, Mamie minded Momma
'Til one day in Singapore
A sailor man from Turkestan
...
A song not for now
You need not put stay ..
A tune for the was
...
Walt Kelly Biography
Walter Crawford Kelly, Jr. (August 25, 1913 – October 18, 1973), or Walt Kelly, was an American animator and cartoonist, best known for the comic strip, Pogo. He began his animation career in 1936 at Walt Disney Studios, contributing to Pinocchio and Fantasia. Kelly resigned in 1941 at the age of 28 to work at Dell Comics, where he created Pogo, which eventually became his platform for political and philosophical commentary. Kelly was born of Irish-American heritage in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Walter Crawford Kelly, Sr., and Genevieve Kelly (née MacAnnula). When he was two years old, the family moved to Bridgeport, Connecticut. After graduating from Warren Harding High School in 1930, Kelly worked at odd jobs until he was hired as a crime reporter on the Bridgeport Post. He also took up cartooning and illustrated a biography of fellow Bridgeport native P. T. Barnum. Kelly was extremely proud of his journalism pedigree and considered himself a newspaper man as well as a cartoonist. Kelly became close friends with fellow cartoonists Milton Caniff and Al Capp, and the three occasionally referred to each other in their strips.)
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The Prince of Pompadoodle
The Prince of Pompadoodle
Lived behind a castle wall.
Behind a moat, behind a guard
Of twenty soldiers tall.
The Prince of Pompadoodle
Was the safest man alive.
Each day he wrote how long he'd lived
And multiplied by five.
The Prince of Pompadoodle
Would survive, he did decide.
Five times as long as he had been
Alive before he died.
The Prince of Pompadoodle
Called in the castle sage
For his advice in this pursuit
Of long and fulsome age.
The Prince of Pompadoodle
Heard in horror from his friend
That somewhere in the palace
Was a cur who'd seek his end!
The Prince of Pompadoodle
Scarce could credit a belief
His years might soon be sneaked away
By some ungrateful thief.
The Prince of Pompadoodle
Sent his every friend away
And sat alone, safe, locked alive,
To count another day.
The Prince of Pompadoodle
May hoard each empty hour,
But none can know; no word comes from
The silent stony tower.
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A man of rare perception. In fact [he] had such rare perceptions they amounted to hallucinations.
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4/18/2024 12:02:33 PM # 1.0.0.1119
A Pogo poem by Walt began something like this: " As I gaze up in the night, To cosmos filled by mysteries bright..." I can't remember the rest.: -(