Tale Of A Diplodocus Poem by Susy Evelyne

A Diplodocus
One day lost focus
And fell into a pit.
It couldn’t rise
And met its demise.
This is the saddest bit.

Its days of roaming
In wild Wyoming
Were lost in the mists of time.
That poor herbivore
Might have stayed ignored -
But luckily for it, and this rhyme…

Ages later
An investigator
Digging among quarry stones,
Discovered - oh boy! -
To his great joy
An awful lot of bones.

It took forever
To put together
All the pieces, without fail.
Then someone roared
‘It’s a dinosaur!
Let’s measure it, head to tail.’

35 metres in length
Was that beast of such strength –
And quite neck-achingly tall.
Now s/he stands proud
To greet the crowds
In a grand museum’s hall.