Just in case you haven’t heard—Gregory Pincus is featuring 30 Poets in 30 Days over at his blog GottaBook during National Poetry Month again this year. Today, I’m the featured poet. I sent Gregory several poems from my unpublished collection titled Docile Fossil. He chose to post Dinosaur Dung, a humorous rhyming poem. I recommend you stop by for a visit at GottaBook and read all the previously unpublished poems written by many well-known poets. Here is a list of the authors whose poems have already been posted at GottaBook: Marilyn Singer, Janet Wong, Joseph Bruchac, Avis Harley, April Halprin Wayland, Graham Denton, George Ella Lyon, Tracie Vaughn Zimmer, Jaime Adoff, Susan Marie Swanson, and Douglas Florian.
Here are a few poems from my collection Docile Fossil that I posted previously at Wild Rose Reader. How Come? is a poem of address and Dragonfly and Pterodactyl’s Wish are mask poems.
How Come?
Woolly mammoth
BigBehemoth
Prehistoric pachyderm,
What did you in,
You hairy hulk?
A teeny tiny
Infinitesimal
Microscopic
Deadly germ?
A miniscule bacterium?
Hmmm?
Elephant is still extant…
Kinkajou and caribou…
Gnat and gnu are living, too.
How come you
And mastodon
Are D-E-A-D
Dead and gone?
T. Rex: A Glutton for Punishment
Oh! T. Rex was a greedy beast.
Each and every day he’d feastOn steamy stegosaurus stew,
Toasted pterodactyl, two
Tons of brontosaurus steak
And slurp up nearly half a lake
With all its prehistoric fishes—
Which he considered most delicious.
No vegetarian dinosaur,
He ate his brother’s posterior.
Digestive track on overload,
And belly bulging, T. Rex strode.
He searched the forest, thunder-toed,
For allosaurus a la mode
With heaps of whipped triceratopping,
Which he gobbled up. Then flopping
Down beneath a tree to rest,
Groaned and moaned and beat his chest.
He had to pause and take a break
Because he had a tummy ache.
Dragonfly
Long, long ago
before dinosaursroamed the land
I flew through prehistoric skies,
my glassy wings glistening in sunlight.
Long, long ago
I printed my imagein mud,
then melted into Earth’s memory.
Now
you can see mestenciled on the stony pages
of time.
Pterodactyl’s Wish
I’m pterodactyl. I’m extinct.
I’m just a fossil now…A relic of Earth’s ancient past.
I wish that I knew how
To break these rocky bonds
Which keep me trapped in days of yore
So I could flap my stony wings
And fly again once more.
Wild Rose Reader National Poetry Month Posts with My Original Poems
MINNOW MUSIC: An Original Mask Poem (This post includes some of my other animal mask poems too.)
GOING BUGGY!: Original Insect Poems
TWOSOMES: Love Poems from the Animal Kingdom…and Some Original Cuddly Creature Couplets
I could have so used these poems for my dinosaur pajama story time. My favoroite is "How Come?"
ReplyDeleteI'm telling ya... you gotta get that collection out there! It's all fantastic.
ReplyDeleteThey are great, such clever wording too. I enjoyed the 'dung' poem also. I wish I had had this book when I taught primary students.
ReplyDeleteYour poems are amazing, top-notch. Gregory is right - hurry up and finish up the collection and publish it so we can all buy your book!
ReplyDeleteDitto to what everyone else said. What a great collection!
ReplyDeleteDinosaur Dung has been my second grade students favorite poem so far this month! It was so timely as just the day before we were reading a book by Steve Parker: It's a Frogs Life and in his glossary he defines dung in a very funny way and then you came out with a whole poem about it! Fantastic.
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