A Child's Dinosaur
At the zoo, I was walking one day
when my young son had wandered away.
I glanced back; he came running to me:
"Mom, a dinosaur. Come look and see!"
I looked to the left and the right.
No dinosaur, of course, was in sight.
Whatever could my child mean?
What animal could he have seen?
Past a crocodile, I and my son
went running. Could that be the one?
Its scales had a similar look
to one in his dinosaur book.
"Is it that one?" I asked with a smile.
"Is your dinosaur that crocodile?"
"It's THERE!" he cried. I had to laugh.
What he'd seen was a long-necked giraffe.
June 28, 2019
For Dinosaur(S) - For Children Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Line Gauthier
Based on true story of my sister and her son Jon-Jon
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