NEW POEMS FOR FEBRUARY 2024

POEM ONE – a play on words – this one is ‘awareness’)

HIPPOWARENESS

This river horse can run a mile,

But never in a lumbering style.

Don’t be fooled, to say the least

Despite it’s gait, its a dangerous beast!

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Its charge is like the ‘Light Brigade’.

You can’t outrun a Hippo’s rage.

At thirty miles an hour on land;

Please find a tree – you understand!

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In water they are just as scary.

So, if you’re near a pool be wary.

An angry pod will flip a boat

And snap up all that’s left afloat.

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Don’t underestimate this beast.

You may not be its choice of feast,

But their jaws are big, their bite is worse.

And this is the end of my Hippowareness verse.

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POEM TWO is about what might happen to a creature if it changes shape

A CIRCULAR CRAYFISH

I am a circular Crayfish,

I have no beginning or end.

This makes it quite hard when I’m swimming,

I tend to go right round the bend.

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My head and my body are merged

Into one indistinguishable ball.

When feeding I find myself spinning,

I really can’t stay still at all.

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I go with the flow in the river,

Rolling and bobbing along.

It’s hard being completely circular –

For a Crayfish that shape is all wrong!

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POEM THREE is a prompt line: I woke up inside a tree…)

Inside a tree I snuggled,

A deep and comfy hollow.

And then my brain remembered

I was actually a swallow.

I should be on migration,

And now I feel bereft,

‘cos I woke up inside a tree,

To find my friends had left.