*Read the book first*

White Mouse: My name is White Mouse

Red Mouse: My name is Red Mouse

Green Mouse: Hi, I’m Green Mouse

Yellow Mouse: Yellow Mouse here I’m a charming fellow.

Purple Mouse: YO man - Purple Mouse is in the house!

Orange Mouse: Howdy I’m Orange Mouse.

Blue Mouse: Yep, it’s true I’m the mouse that true blue.

Together: We seven mice are blind as a bat as you can see. We can’t see a thing.

White Mouse: Except for me.

WM: One fine day I was surprised to find something strange around the pond.

All Others: What it was we do not know, but home we ran - as quickly as our little legs could go.

Together: Do we dare return? Not until the truth we learn.

WM: I went to the pond to search around.

RM: I ran to the pond to feel around and guess what it was that there I found - some flat cold pillar - big and round.

Together: We both the same thing did feel, but could it be a big tall pillar for real?

WM: I went to the pond to search around.

GM: I ran to the pond, and oh my, oh me! What did I find? Eeeeeek! A snake! A snake! Oh, could it be?

Together: We both found something long and slithery, but was it a snake? Now was it really?

WM: I went to the pond to search around.

YM: I went to the pond to have a feel. Being quite mellow, I returned to report, “It’s a spear. It’s no big deal.”

Together: Something long and pokey we did find, but is it a spear? Are we in our right mind?

WM: I went to the pond to search around.

PM: Hey, it’s cool. Don’t you bother with it brother. I’ll check it out. Ahhhhh! Stand back my friend. It’s an endless cliff without a doubt.

Together: Good thing we can’t see cuz it’s a long way down - Oh I feel dizzy!

WM: I went to the pond to search around, to find the truth, if it can be found.

OM: I went to the pond and broke a sweat hiking round and round, but oh, please don’t fret. A cool breeze blew through - a fan waiving up and down believe me, it’s true!

Together: Is it true? Could it be? I feel I hear. Oh, if only I knew - if I could just see.

WM: I went to the pond to search round and round - to find, the truth, if it really, on earth, really honestly, could be found.

BM: I went to the pond and what did I find? Something I felt that really totally blew my mind. It felt so long and wiry just like a rope. Oh, yeah, a rope it is, or I’m truly a dope.

Together: Dopes we may be, but one day, the truth we hope to “see”.


WM: That’s it! That’s it! I can obviously see, to discover the truth, it is up to me.

All Others: We were a little confused. Our senses deceived us. Thank goodness for White Mouse who came and retrieved us.

Together: Poor blind creatures did we used to be, but though we were blind, now we do see. Just what is it we have come to know and learn?

Oh, now we see the form and particulars of a PACADERM.

Now that this two-voice poem is done, it is now your turn to have some fun. With as short a statement as it can be, wrap up this poem morally.

What would you say is the MOUSE MORAL of this tale?

Now, if you dare to compare, turn to the final page and see what moral is there.

Bryan Hatch

March 6, 2008