Gentle Animals

• Melissa Bidlingmaier, Grade 4
• Poetry
• 2014

These animals I speak of in part
Will really truly melt your heart
First of all let’s see now
Oh could it be a flying cow?
Yes these beasts are quite absurd
But of which a tale I once have heard
Bobbie was yet very new
And father bought her after our midday stew
How she tried to do her best
To look like the rest
Unfortunately there came the day
That she grew wings and flew away.
Before our Bobbie left us, she told me
She’d hep transport things over the sea.
Although Bobbies gone, I like to know
She’s helping people come and go.
Now on to our cocker spaniel
Whose name it seems was Sergeant Daniel?
He was indeed a genet hound
For none like him had ever been found
Danny wouldn’t hurt the smallest fly
Or want the smallest thing to die
One day we found our boy Danny
Come out of our old backyard dunny
In his jaws we found a mouse
Who’d fallen from its small mouse house?
Above its eye we saw some blood
Oozing out of a tiny cut
Sargent Daniel put it down
And then sat there with a frown
So we put him in his petite mouse house
And that’s the end of these two tales
Now sleep in peace on soft white sails.