A Celebration of Animals: Mythological Bonus Verses!

Thorin N. Tatge

I am a toxic thing,

Wretched and lugubrious,

Studded with ceratoid spikes of bone!

I have the fetid touch:

I turn everything to mush!

You’d better run and hide

Or you’ll wind up petrified!

Mine is a world of stone!

I am a burning thing,

Sharp and keen and colorful

Flying the world with feathers worn;

If I need a place to crash—

I’ll just burn myself to ash

Lifespan millenial,

Legacy perennial—

Mine is a world reborn!

I am a swarming thing

Giant and reptilian,

Striking my foes in a deadly whirl!

But, I’m confused about

Where to go when eating out:

I never can agree

Because there are nine of me!

Mine is a world in plural!

I am a hopping thing,

Chased by demons, snakes and balls;

Twenty-eight cubic feet is my range!

Green balls allay my risks;

Freedom comes on swirling discs;

I shall forever roam

‘Til the world is monochrome;

Mine is a world of change!