Born in Lyme Regis Dorset
a palaeontologist fossil collector
in the English Channel marine bed cliffs
and a coprolites (faeces) detector
who at only twelve years old
found the first two skeletons plesiosaur
and outside Germany
that of a pterosaur
yet as a woman who did not
always receive full credit
for her scientific contributions
and ineligible to join to their discredit
the Geological Society of London
while struggling financially
for her it was no shell game
to make ends meet as circumstantially
when selling shells by the seashore
the seashore shells she sold
were her start of the first shell company
by the Natural History Museum in London I was told
Categories:
palaeontologist, appreciation, beach, celebrity, character,
Form: Rhyme
THE PALAEONTOLOGIST
There was once a palaeontologist
Hammering rocks hard he couldn’t resist
He found mosquito fossils large
In strange rocks of Jurassic age
Theorized why Dinosaurs don’t exist.
April 26, 2018.
Categories:
palaeontologist, animal, funny,
Form: Limerick
Yes, thank you, read it, and replied.
Belated, but this poem you’ve inspired.
Your adventure, all the thrills, of nature
Victorian history, for me a virtual adventure
Often on one’s forays into the wilds of nature.
Thinking, why else should one this far venture
But there they are, digging, holes all over,
Old Victorian landfill sites, bottles undercover.
So as one’s sweeping sweep net sweeps, thinking
A thirst to quench, thinks some more whilst drinking
Where one treads, how much history lies underfoot
Ones a naturalist, not an archaeologist, so don’t tut!
Naturalists with a bent for palaeontology, o many,
This one is no exception, fossils, one has aplenty.
Only once has one gone on a palaeontologist quest,
But hey one’s a naturalist, too far now ones digressed.
Categories:
palaeontologist, confusion, nature,
Form: Free verse