Hungry Dinosaur Poems by Dawson, Trace, and Lynzee

T-Rex with Broccoli by Dawson

These dinosaur poems about food are like potato chips, you can't stop at just one! Many thanks to all three of these students from Margaret Simon's gifted classroom.


VEGAN DINOSAUR
          by Dawson, 4th grade, © 2018

A T-Rex, big and fierce,
hard to imagine one eating broccoli.

Well It's as true,

as celery.

Sharp teeth,

good for meat,

but a T-Rex eating a salad,

how that idea is going extinct.

I WILL DO DA DINOSAUR
          by Trace, 5th grade, © 2018 

You can ask a T.Rex lots of questions.

Like why does it eat meat.

But never ask why their arms are so short.

If you do, when you're running, you'll feel the heat. 

You can ask why they don't eat plants.

Never say they should go on a diet and eat like a triceratops.

If he answers, it will scare your socks off.

But that is your loss.
 
If you do ask one of these,

hide in a tree.

His stubby arms won't reach you.

( Don't tell them I said that.)


I CAN'T IMAGINE

          by Lynzee, 3rd grade, © 2018 

a T-Rex going to the gym,
lifting weights,
saying,
"I gotta get fit, lose the triceratops bacon I ate for breakfast!"
Straining to pick it up,
he puts it down and goes,
"CHOMP!"
He says,
"Oh, great, now I need replacements,
AND my wife is going to sign me up for anger management classes."

Mrs. Simon's students also wrote a couple of non-food-related poems that you can read on our April 2018 padlet.


Click HERE to read this month's interview with Deborah Bruss and Matt Forrest Esenwine. They've challenged us to write a poem about something you would not expect a dinosaur (or another kind of animal) to do.

Leave your poem on our April 2018 padlet. While some contributions will be featured as daily ditties this month, all contributions will be included in a wrap-up celebration this Friday, April 27th, and one lucky participant will win a personalized copy of their fun new rhyming picture book from POW! Kids: