Mummy took us to the zoo
she hoped it wouldn’t bore us
In truth I think that mummy knew
we’d see a Brontosaurus
I stroked a small Triceratops
it had a tiny pink horn
I fed him all my chocolate drops
the keeper eyed me with scorn
I kissed a Tyrannosaurus Rex
When I climbed a big step ladder
Mom did all the safety checks
else the keeper would get madder
We were chased by a big Diplodocus
I could hear him snapping his jaws
Then he turned and he winked at us
and began to lick his huge paws
One dinosaur wore dark glasses
and tried so hard to ignore us
His breed no other surpasses
it’s a Doyouthinkhesawrus!
DINOSAUR(S) - FOR CHILDREN Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Line Gauthier
3/7/19
I am a proud Diplodocus
My friends all call me Dippy.
I'm never picked for soccer
For my legs are not so nippy.
But when it comes to basketball
I get all the attention,
By scoring goals aplenty with
My inbuilt neck extension.
I'm rather slow and lumbersome;
The clue is in the name,
I plod about in search of food
Then back from whence I came.
And often little dinosaurs
Will jump on for the ride,
Then whoop for joy when they get home
As down my neck they slide!
22.06.19
'Dinosaur(S) - For Children Poetry Contest' : Sponsored by: Line Gauthier
Steve the Stegosaurus seemed an awful grumpy fellow,
All he did was stomp about, and how he roared and bellowed.
All the other dinosaurs knew he was around,
The noise he made was deafening, and tremors shook the ground.
Danny the Diplodocus said he'd have a word,
For Steve the Stegosaurus, was acting quite absurd.
He said " tell me Steve, what is up with you,
The place is in an uproar, we don't know what to do."
He said, "I'm a Stegosaurus you can't say I'm petite,
I mean just take a look, have you not seen my feet?
I don't mean to be so noisy but I bellow every day,
It's just so the little ones can get out of my way."
"Oh Steve, said Danny, just you roar and bellow,
None of us ever knew that you were such a thoughtful fellow."
And so Steve he bellows, they hear him every day,
"Here comes thoughtful Steve" they say,
....as they move out of his way.
Entry for
DINOSAUR(S) - FOR CHILDREN Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Line Gauthier
18/6/2019. Placed 3rd.
Grenfell tower
ruptures the horizon,
London's skyline is scarred
like a blackened diplodocus
or a charred monument
for a laconic London bridge
still burning
But look,
linen wraps its iron-bones
mumifying the city's underclass-
an icon for future generations
oppressively,
grief hauls a heavy granite cross
as sharp rocks splinter shins
then whips wheeze
winnowing breath
ascending a modern Golgotha,
who unleashed this hydra 's fury
whose black breath incinerates
the once laughter of our kindred?
As family once sung at Christmas,
they now hear
the endless screech of sirens,
the contagious roar of conflagration.
Is London another Guernica?
trodden by apocalyptic steads
with mothers cradling dead infants,
rocking their limp limbs
in a deep dirge to red-fired skies,
furnaced by council fascists
as politically the city is fractured.
An emerging phoenix will sprout,
magenta winged against black,
from this burning pyre, a reincarnation.
a rebranded London is reborn
perused by the London Eye
ever vigilant but now blindfolded
observing justice for the unheard
and voiceless minority
as a terrible beauty is spawned
David Attenborough
and his “Portrait of Earth”
the best serial about evolutions secrets of nature
and truly wonder
of movie creating technology
at the last part of XX century,
when our empire, culture and ideology
failed and rotten off from all sides and levels,
where so long ruled communists mastodons ,
on the eve of total breakdown,
mister David Attenborough
casted from TV every friday evening
to our stuffy waste part of Globe,
the brilliant art and marvel
refreshing and reviving our air
with astonishing scenes from wildlife nature
from the Jurassic monsters
toward the latest Cambria
and crucial time
when ape transform for *****sapiens.
The full movie impressed our people
as one of the best advertisement of free world,
opening its deep potencies, achievement and great future,
that so strong contrasting
with epoch of latest soviet decadence
when our reptiles, diplodocus and others prehistoric animals
so long survived in our political arena,
even didn understood their alien transcendencies
quite unnatural and oddly looking
in our planet and its so long evolution.