Continuum - Part One
...Protruding from new fallen rock, where fossil hunters play
And casting long its shadow, as the night gives way to day
This femur from an ancient beast that walked here long before
Perhaps an isola...
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Categories:
tyrannosaurus rex, future, humanity, time,
Form: Narrative
aliens in the jungle
...I thought it would be fine
to find an alien in the jungle
talked about it to everyone
We headed into the Amazon
I was thinking about running into a puma,
space ships, aliens, a dragon,
and po...
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Categories:
tyrannosaurus rex, journey,
Form: Free verse
I hanker and pine for wood burning stove weather
...I hanker and pine for wood burning stove weather
I haint no spring chicken,
("Buk buk buk buk ba-gawk!")
but in Summer re:
long in tooth sexagenarian
nostalgic for the following imagery
ev...
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Categories:
tyrannosaurus rex, age, allegory, appreciation, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Dave Crandall
...Dave
Reflective, questioning, introspective, introverted
Father of Daniel
Lover of Daniel, music, and mathematics
Who feels wonder, gratitude, and sentiment
Who fears climate change, nuclear w...
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Categories:
tyrannosaurus rex, self, son,
Form: Bio
Elf Helps Spread the Word
...If I was as big as a Tyrannosaurus Rex
I would go to Paris and hug the Eiffel Tower
You might scare people, her husband suggested
I would not look like a Tyrannosaurus Rex,
I would just be as b...
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Categories:
tyrannosaurus rex, 4th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Rhyme
If I Were As Big As a T Rex
...If I was as big as a Tyrannosaurus Rex
I would go to Paris and hug the Eiffel Tower
You might scare people, her husband suggested
I would not look like a Tyrannosaurus Rex,
I would just be as b...
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Categories:
tyrannosaurus rex, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Stop Taking Her For Grant It
...We exploit her gifts, polluting, robbing.
Mother earth has a soul and we've
all heard her sobbing..
Too many species are now extinct.
We need to slow down, reassess, think..
Exxon, Shell, Chevro...
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Categories:
tyrannosaurus rex, 1st grade, earth,
Form: Light Verse
You Made This
...We have seen every ghastly act and recorded it.
Grisly deeds yellow in archives waiting to be refined and improved.
Tyrannosaurus Rex wakes in a drop of amber, takes a look around,
decides to go e...
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Categories:
tyrannosaurus rex, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The New Normal
...We have seen every ghastly act and recorded it.
Grisly deeds yellow in archives waiting to be refined and improved.
Tyrannosaurus Rex awakes in a drop of amber, takes a look around,
decides to go ...
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Categories:
tyrannosaurus rex, poetry,
Form: Free verse
On the Avenue
...From marble and granite to steel and glass,
we were discussing Rhina Espaillat’s On the Avenue in class,
was it 1950s or 1980s NYC and were the fifties
the city’s halcyon days or is it now, the 20...
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Categories:
tyrannosaurus rex, america, city, god, hope,
Form: Free verse
Eve of Destruction
...We have seen every ghastly act and recorded it.
Yet more grisly deeds yellow in archives
waiting to be resuscitated and refined.
Tyrannosaurus Rex awakes in a drop of amber,
takes a gander, de...
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Categories:
tyrannosaurus rex, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Tyrannosaurus Rex
...Most well-known dinosaur I suspect
Is the star of Hollywood, Tyrannosaurus Rex
These guys vainly
Walk around mainly
But to fly Pterodactlyls must flap like heck...
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Categories:
tyrannosaurus rex, history,
Form: Limerick
You Made This
...We have seen
every ghastly act
and recorded it.
Grisly deeds
yellow in vaults no longer.
Tyrannosaurus Rex wakes
in a drop of amber.
A towering ghastliness
roams free
on a darkening Net.
Ce...
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Categories:
tyrannosaurus rex, poetry,
Form: Free verse
In the Key of Baby T
..."Run! Run along and play, Baby T!"
Mama Rex told her little one, as she pitter-patted from the cave.
"Wait! Did you brush your ... teeth?" she trailed off,
Realizing Baby T was now out of ears...
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Categories:
tyrannosaurus rex, analogy, animal, youth,
Form: Free verse
Dreaming of Dinosaurs
...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...
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Categories:
tyrannosaurus rex, animal, fantasy, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
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