There is a beast deep in the
sea
That they say looks a bit
like me
With its long tentacles
with suckery things
Which it can coil up like
coiled springs
And it has a strange and
scaly head
But has no face or so it has been often said
And its fins are fine and
look like lace
And can completely vanish
without a trace
And in the gloomy dark it
will start to glow
With an iridescent and
green fluorescent luminous light show.
Long talons and rows of
sharp pointy teeth
Will catch its food on its
favourite reef
It has big black eyes that
number twenty five
So once it spots you then
you will not survive
And it will often howl and
let out eerie moans
And in times of famine can
live entirely on small rocks and stones
Strangely though it looks
rather regal
With it majestic horns and
beak like that of an eagle
And it lays eggs on the
shore buried in the sand
Which it makes quickly with
a hideously deformed hand
And its body is blue
And it can swallow a whale
But it is just possible
This poem
Is a slightly exaggerated
tale
Which is something
seafaring folk tend to do
And fishermen
And Astronauts
And others
And others
like Poets too
Okay, in trying to envisage the creature from your descriptions, may have driven me slightly insane. I hope that you're proud of yourself My Z! Ooh look, a talking banana!
ReplyDeleteI hate bananas Miss Lily. . . . OK I may have exaggerated, but sometimes poetry demands it.
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