Ima Ryma Poems

An ornate box turtle am I,
Just hatched at the Lincoln Park Zoo.
On my egg tooth I did rely
To crawl through egg shell and come through.
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I am Minnie, the fennec fox.
The keepers keep schedules to do.
I know when it's time and I talks
To keepers at Lincoln Park Zoo.
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A sloth that's relatively new,
I'm getting the hang of the place
With Mom at the Lincoln Park Zoo.
So get accustomed to my face.
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Queen Elizabeth the Second
Now has most seconds on the throne.
Math can be done if so beckoned,
1952 to now zone.
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I am the dolphin called Pinky,
Seen down Louisiana way.
Humans say albino I be,
So blood vessels show on display,
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Mr. and Mrs. Dwarf Mongoose,
Living in the Lincoln Park Zoo,
With family we have let loose.
So many children - what to do!
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Giant Armadillo am I,
And what I like the best to eat,
I am the first to clarify,
Termites are my favorite treat,
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St. Francis of Assisi heard
And saw all nature had to give,
And sought to try by deed and word,
A better way for all to live.
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We bee honey bees from the hive,
At the Farm in Lincoln Park Zoo.
Just a few weeks we bee alive
To buzz about for honey do.
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Across the tundra vast and cold
There's warming, degree by degree.
And more and more of them unfold -
Mosquitoes in the Arctic be
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