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.
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.
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.
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.