by Juliet Wilson
I can’t imagine I’m the only one here to have had a childhood fascination with dinosaurs, and when I got the chance earlier this year to work on the Dinosaur Dig at the Edinburgh International Science Festival, I jumped at the opportunity! It was great fun helping children dig up our fake stegosaurus and it quickly became clear that they knew more about dinosaurs than we did!
It struck me too that dinosaurs could be great inspiration for poetry, whether to explore the symbolism of monsters, ponder the issues around extinction or just to re-create a lost world. Yet strangely there seem to be very few dinosaur poems out there — so why not let’s all put that right by writing our own!
Come back here next Thursday to share your dinosaur poem or whatever else you wanted to write.
I was incredibly fascinated with dinosaurs when I was a kid. I think all the kids wanted me to draw them each a dinosaur of their own choice! Sadly, I can’t remember very much about them now, other than T-Rex who’s the villain of the group, and then some more from the first American series of the Power Rangers as they all call out to their morphs during crises. Anyone remember that?? LOL.
This prompt will definitely rekindle my long lost “dinosaur” love this week!
My son is in love with dinosaurs, but big time, enough to rattle off their habitat(s) and diet and so on easily. He loves the Lesothosaurus!
As for me, I’m in love with Madonna.
Reth, which Madonna?
Dino-mite idea!
The Madonna of TV and video clips. Think I’d hate to love her in real life, though.
Reth, I bet.
[...] was written for the Read Write Poem Prompt #47: Of Monsters and Dinosaurs [...]
[...] wasn’t going to try to write a poem based on Juliet’s prompt – fun that it was – until I saw Reth’s Lesothosaurus. His inspired me to Google [...]