How long is the largest saltwater crocodile?
If you want to know, you can see her for yourself.
She lives in the Bhitarkanika Wildlife Sanctuary in Issa, India.
Would you like to guess?
Even after you see her, I doubt you will get it right.
She is twenty-three foot long.
Others have reported seeing a thirty-three foot crocodile.
But this has never been substantiated.
Categories:
largest, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
I want the biggest geode coffee table I can get he told the geologist.
Better backtrack I said to my cousin, knowing who he was speaking with.
It is going to be pricey, the geologist warned him, and it will weigh tons.
Not a problem, my cousin told him.
I was shocked, as he lives in a home that does not look too sturdy.
They had to take the roof off of his home.
A gorgeous geode coffee table was dropped into place.
Disappearing into the bowels of the hardwood floors a second later.
They had broken into bits.
The coffee table was now a bunch of little geodes lying in his basement.
My cousin wanted a refund, but he had not read the fine print.
So here we are now, trying to sell these gems for a couple of dollars each
And my cousin is out thousands of dollars
Because he would not listen to me.
Categories:
largest, life,
Form: Prose Poetry
I
Five thousand years
Slow human gears
No internet ears
Seagrass grew
II
Now 200 rugby fields
Showcase Nature's yields
When humans are still
Posidonia, fiberball, grow it will
(Protected by God through Australia)
Categories:
largest, encouraging, environment, growth, history,
Form: Rhyme
Armitage thought he had made his escape
The enemies were rapidly slaughtered.
If he were a cannibal, he would have roasted them.
His ancestors would have had a fit, however, so he kept walking.
The climb up the mountain back to his people was slow.
So much snow this year, and their food supply had dwindled.
He heard the hard-loud breathing before he saw the yeti.
It was bigger than he imagined they could be.
Dare he try to engage in one-to-one combat with this creature?
He turned and faced the largest teeth he had ever seen.
It would be a fight to the death; he had no idea if he could survive.
Out of the woods came three more of his clan, weapons drawn,
They yelled the war whoop of his nation and headed toward the yeti.
The battle would be much more fair now.
Armitage smiled. There might be meat for many suppers.
He began to slash toward the monster in earnest.
Categories:
largest, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry
Whale Sharks are listed as, endangered
and are found in, all tropical oceans on the planet
They are the largest fish and nothing like the Titanic
and their white spotted skin, makes them known as gentle giants
Adults are often seen feeding, at the ocean’s surface
but can dive one thousand meters, to feed on plankton
They can travel very long distances, for the need to feed
to sustain their huge size, and their need of reproduction
They are highly valued, on the international black markets
for the human need of greed, of their meat, oil and fins
They are victims of bycatch, when fishing for the supermarkets
and fishing disturbs their feeding, that can led to propeller injuring
Categories:
largest, animal, beautiful, earth, education,
Form: Rhyme
Green turtles are listed as, endangered
and are mainly found, in tropical and sub-tropical sea oceans
they are one of the largest sea turtles, to have ever embraced our oceans
and are the only Sea Turtle herbivore, and a great sea ocean mentor
Green turtles graze on seagrasses, that helps maintain beds of seagrass
and when they have digested, going to the dunny release’s vital nutrients
for many species of plants and animals, as they thrive with stimulants
and seagrass beds are nurseries, for species to amass their social class
Sea turtles need beaches for nesting, but humans are encroaching
and they harvest their eggs, and hunt the adults for greedy investing
Coastal development, vehicle beach traffic, and other human activities
are destroying sea turtle nesting, and climate change is male declining
Categories:
largest, animal, beautiful, earth, education,
Form: Rhyme
Fin Whales are listed as, endangered
and are the second largest animal, on our planet
they swim in, California, Coral Triangle and Artic waters
and the ridge on their back, is nicknamed “razorback”
They have an unusual feature, as their lower left jaw
is just black, and lower right jaw, is bright white
They circle schools of fish, with their white side facing
to densify their prey, for an easy catch of fish
Commercial whaling, has killed hundreds of thousands
for oil, meat and baleen, to feed greedy humans
Iceland needs to end, their commercial annihilation
and we all need to end, climate change and pollution
Categories:
largest, animal, beautiful, earth, education,
Form: Rhyme
No blood would ooze out if cut by blade
No flesh below to sink, nothing inside shakes
Bare bones protruding here and there like spikes
Vacant look in the eyes
Yet the body breathes and survives;
Skeleton like children of Somalia, one of the African tribes.
Somalia carries the most pathetic tableau in the world stage;
Three fourth of its children below two are anaemic
And large numbers are stunted below five years in age
Yet, each mother can’t resist giving birth to six, seven children though sick!
High temperature, polluted water, inadequate housing and sanitation
Poor infrastructure added to their plight makes the poor Africans
Chased by the changed climate and the natural calamities
Fighting among themselves, vulnerable to many a tropical disease
Some of them are obese too who wait for more ways to suffer;
Poor healthcare system compelling them to incur
Huge out of pocket expenses pushing millions of Africans
To the path of poverty and indignity, mostly among the Nigerians;
Paucity of doctors and health centres add salt to their wounds
As some age old dreadful superstitions surround.
Aju Mukhopadhyay, 2018
Categories:
largest, africa,
Form: Free verse
Brain Was Largest of Each Artist
Some say that they are the smartest;
Having a big brain that is the largest;
Checked mail;
Did prevail,
And already was found in each artist.
Jim Horn
Categories:
largest, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Where my largest (the last time)
expressive feelings are
everywhere you are
expressive being of bliss!
all life must confess privately
our desires and fears
heart beats so quietly matched
by majestic belief in love!
come! even weakness proclaims
divine rights as you and then
sometimes even me -- adoration
and respect for my lady
will then, you now shall have
met love and mostly by many
souls it goes unnoticed.
:: 03-01-2016 ::
Categories:
largest, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Highest Denomination U.S. Bill Ever Printed
By Elton Camp
If on Jeopardy! this question should arise,
The correct answer might be quite a surprise
“What’s a hundred dollar bill? will be wrong
To a larger bill that distinction does belong
Only 42,000 of them actually came to print
And for public circulation were never meant
It was in the 1960s that they quit being made
Outside government use, they were forbade
And only a few still in existence still do remain
A sample certain government agencies did retain
Realize that all 42,000 have been accounted for
Despite Internet claims, there simply are no more
Reports recur that more of them have been located
“We have a certificate of authenticity” is stated
They are nothing but cheaply-made counterfeit
It’s a scam and they aren’t worth the tiniest bit
Categories:
largest, history
Form: Rhyme