A bit on the paper-thin side even by this year’s standards; but during napowrimo you take what you can get.
Storks
In which a popular myth is dispelled, and some helpful advice is offered for homeowners living in those regions where this decorative species is most commonly found.
Thanks to an early misprint,
people think that storks bring babies.
That [...]
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Napowrimo #6: Storks
6 April 2008 – 8:32 pm
Napowrimo #5: The Wandering Pine
5 April 2008 – 8:23 pm
The Wandering Pine migration’s an unstoppable stampede
which makes up in tenacity for what it lacks in speed;
usually they’ve travelled about eighteen inches when
it’s time for them to turn around and head back north again.
Napowrimo #4: The Great White Shark
4 April 2008 – 9:43 pm
The Great White Shark
Carcharodon carcharias
is sadly much maligned;
they live on cheese and use their teeth
to help remove the rind.*
*Since in the Pacific
cheddar can be hard to find,
they sometimes snack on swimmers.
But I daresay no-one minds.
Napowrimo #3: The Native English Elephant
3 April 2008 – 3:32 pm
The Native English Elephant
The native English elephant
is very rarely seen;
its hide is finely camouflaged
with dappled brown and green.
The elephants of England
are terribly discreet.
They stroll around in hazel woods
on softly-falling feet.
To find if English elephants
are living near you:
in April check for little piles
of bluebell-scented poo.
Napowrimo #2: Aeolian Squid
2 April 2008 – 10:11 pm
There really is a distinct shortage of good rhymes in English.
Aeolian Squid
Observant sailors sometimes say
that over Arctic seas
they see small blobs of silver-grey
floating on the breeze.
With bodies full of helium,
they rise above the spray,
and trail ten dangling tentacles
in search of tiny prey.
Napowrimo #1: spider
1 April 2008 – 9:55 pm
As a dog returneth to his vomit:
You sometimes find, on Merseyside,
a tiny spider sitting
upon a web of red and white.
It makes it out of knitting.
So if you hear, around the house,
faint and highly pitched,
a burst of irritated Scouse:
a spider’s dropped a stitch.