Best Dinosaur Poems
Little friend of mine, we have such a wonderful time.
Everyone is so afraid of you, even if you are just made of blue.
We play all day and night, then we can sleep so tight.
In our dreams we play until we awake, then we go running down and play at the lake.
Before you know it the day is done, then there is no more fun.
Now it is time to sleep again,
so mommy can write our thoughts with a pen.
Honorable Mention July 2019 DINOSAUR(S) - FOR CHILDREN
Contest Judged: 7/5/2019 Sponsored by: Line Gauthier
babysitting Ricky
he shows me books on T-Rex. . .
ancient history
years later. . . watching
Jurassic Park on TV. . .
my two kids and I
games played on a screen
my grandson plays the hunter. . .
I’m the dinosaur
For SKAT's Dinosaurs Haiku Contest
If I had a dinosaur I would be insanely happy.
If I had a dinosaur I would be the best me of all.
If I had a dinosaur she’d be named Matilda B. Snappy.
If I had a dinosaur I would feel twelve and a half feet tall.
If I had a purple dinosaur, together we’d be so deliciously sweet.
If I had a dinosaur I’d go to grandpa’s without a fight.
If I had my dinosaur I’d follow every rule, and stay out of the nasty car-infested street.
Matilda B would be company, keeping me from escaping from my window every single night.
If I had a dinosaur you could take all these tiresome toys out of my room.
If I had Matilda B. I’d stop being afraid of the monsters in my closet.
If we housed a dinosaur we’d sleep without electricity, by the light of the moon.
Saving us money, Matilda B. could teach me to fix the broken sink, and leaking faucet.
If I had a dinosaur, I’d be the best child in the city, the state, the world, and the universe.
Matilda would have my back as I’d apologize to many kids for pushing them down and pulling their hair.
If I had a dinosaur, I’d brush my teeth, and give back all the stolen things, even Auntie’s red purse.
If we brought Matilda B. Home to our family, do you honestly think I’d behave any worse.
I've never twitted on Tweeter
nor am I an Instagrammarian
I've searched on Goggle
but cannot find MyFace
I ask it "how do I change the oil in my car?"
and get 570,000,000,000,000 hits
so I go make some toast and eat lunch
at least I can work a toaster
my kids think I was born in the Jurassic era
for I speak of phones with cords
that came out of a wall
and TV stations with 4 channels
to choose between
I feel like I'm swabbing the deck
on a Byzantine sailing ship
I don't know url's from www's,
or http's from html's
my mobile phone tries
to auttocronect my thumb typing
and cyber censors block my search
for 'penal colonies'
So I walk to my neighborhood park and
...lie on the grass
...stare at the blue sky
...pet my neighbor's schnauzer
...feed peanuts to the squirrels
...imagine shapes in the clouds
...watch the sun set and the moon rise
The cyber world is
an amazing supersonic ride
but the great outdoors is my landing strip
and I've just touched down
Dinosaurs just loved to take the floor and dance
On tippy toes the size of garden sheds
And when they did they’d sashay strut and prance
Harmonic beats would shake Jurassic beds
They tripped the light fantastic verging heavy
Their favourite moves were known as the galumphs
You’d find them all way down upon the levee
In tutus and industrial grade pumps
Brontosauri would impress with pirouettes
Making small tornados interspersed with gales
But the T Rex topped it all doing entrechats
Causing seismic action gauged on Richter scale
Their performances gave them renowned distinction
Although some say that it led to their extinction
6/20/2019
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
I have a toddler who loves to play
Pretend – imaginary friend, make-believe
She pierces my heart with her adventures
Into the fantasy land of dinosaurs,
Dungeons and dragons, long lost voyages
With pirates and princes – feeling
Invincible, indestructible, unshakable
Like she has the tiger by the tail
And is sure to always win in the end
I’m still in college and this toddler of mine
She gives me a healthy dose of jeopardy
To help me see the thrills in this life
Now I try to do my homework,
While she colors, paints or plays
With a wad of Play dough in hues
Of vivid and brilliant scarlet or sapphire
I was doing homework one morning
As she colored there by my feet
And I decided she needed a sippy cup
Of cranberry juice to sufficiently be
Prepared for her day of fictitious ideas
As I finished up my homework
And headed out to the kitchen
I noticed her pterodactyl there beside her
When I came back from the kitchen
Handing her the sippy cup with the juice
She smiled and handed me a torn up paper
The homework I’d just prepared that day
As she giggled, “pterodactyl ate it, Mommy”
In spite of my shaking head, I laughed
And began to rewrite the page that
A flaming pterodactyl had eaten
...and then a flaming pterodactyl ate my homework Poetry Contest
Sponsored by John lawless
January 19, 2021
During the Mesozoic times
There was a T-rex named T. Rhymes
His tiny teeth he was hiding
Afraid of bullying and chiding.
His mother said “We don’t need big.”
His daddy said, “We don’t eat pig.”
Stegosaurus said “If they make fun of you
I will show them the bottom of my shoe.”
This made him laugh and play
And took these feelings all away.
So you see, in the absolute end.
All it takes is a really great friend!
Written 6-30-2019 Contest: Dinosaur for Children Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Line Gauthier
I didn't really mean,
To do what I have done,
I trod on a dinosaur's tail
And now I'm on the run.
He's about forty feet long
And he's breathing down my neck,
My heart is purely throbbing
And my nerves are all a wreck.
He's just about on top of me
His teeth about to crunch.
Oh where do you hide from a dinosaur
When you're about to be his lunch.
"Stop playing with that lizard Tommy
And come on in for tea,"
"Ah, you'd spoil any game mum
For a little boy like me."
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camarasaurus
defined jurassic era
unique sauropod
Miss Velociraptor knew she was scary,
she’d be rich if for each scream she had a penny.
She tried her best not to growl,
not to chase, beat or foul,
but not for long could she stick with any.
Mr T-Rex wanted a mate,
old now, he worried it was too late.
But his hands were so small,
he could never pick up the phone to call,
the dino he fancied to ask for a date.
Mrs Pterodactyl loved soaring in the sky,
knowing the dinosaurs below wished they too could fly.
Getting close to the sun,
sizzling like a hot cross bun,
merrily flapping her wings as she swooshed by.
Master Diplodocus disliked his enormous feet,
no animal with paws larger he ever did meet.
He even tried nail polish
to make his toes look less trollish,
whilst still crushing tiny creatures in the street.
Mummy and Daddy Iguanodon tried to evade,
whilst placing their youngest in some cooling shade,
that summer’s terrible heat,
which was rotting all their hunted meat,
their patience in the warmth just starting to fade.
Baby Allosaurus would not go to sleep,
all night long he continued to roar, dig and leap.
But when babysitter Plesiosaur
told him she was a very hungry carnivore,
no sound was then heard, not one peep.
~My Pet Dinosaur~
(Rhyme)
I have a dinasour for a pet
He likes to eat all he can get
Prefers plants more than meats
He loves insects,dislikes bats.
The other day I took him to school
He had a great time it was cool
My friends of him were afraid
Because his big teeth displayed.
I'm so glad he came with me
But my teacher did not agree
She had plants over the wall
And my dinasour ate them all!
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2015
January,11,2015
~My Pet Dinosaur~
(A children's poem)
I have a dinasour for a pet
He likes to eat all he can get
Prefers plants more than meats
He loves insects, dislikes bats
The other day I took him to school
He had a great time it was so cool
My friends of him were afraid
Because his big teeth he displayed
I'm so glad he came with me
But my teacher did not agree
She had plants over the wall
And my dinasour ate them all.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2010
January.13.2016
There were two dinos who loved the hop
When they got started, they could not stop.
They bounced - flailed about,
Until both passed out,
and detained for affray by a cop.
Copyright © 2011 By Caryl S. Muzzey
I don't believe the present day depiction of the dinosaur
with its very intimidating, very loud roar,
because dinosaurs were reptiles, and I know this much for sure.
There are over 8,950 present day species of reptiles,
and a soft hiss is the loudest any of them roar,
except perhaps for the amphibians,
aquatic reptiles who are vocal very often
regarding territory claims or when seeking partners for mating,
but they are hardly roaring. It sounds more like they're singing.