Monday, 18 April 2011

The bone

I found a dinosaur bone
white, by my feet
I scanned it
on my computer,
hidden in a tree:
tyrannosaurus.
I looked for more
there was only
this one
I showed
mommy, she said

It's a dog bone! Don't touch your mouth!
And she took me inside to wash my hands of
My last dinosaur bone
I tried again,
but it was just pretending.

2 comments:

  1. Flows very well. Good example of a loss of childhood innocence.

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  2. first poem other then the red wheel barrow that i have been able to read and pay full attention to without getting bored or stopping to do something else, it tranisitions(not sure if thats the right word) well and shows that first lack of imagination in a child

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