Love in the Cretaceous

Spent most of the day writing this, and some other things that are half-completed. This is supposed to be a comic poem for little children...



Love in the Cretaceous



In aeons past when the earth was young

The late coniacian sun had hardly set

And against the stark starlit even-sky

Stood a bold diplodocine silhouette

For he received a call from his lady love

For far from her shadowed vale was he

In a glorious roar his long neck thundered

In adoration for his diplodocus bride-to-be



In the land of the cretaceous

They shall love and multiply

An adventure so flirtatious

Beneath the cretaceous sky



And he galloped across the parched plains

The diplodocus to his diplodocus maiden

In the darkened sky the pteranodons flew by

And the moonshine was with starlight laden

‘A night for romance’ the diplodocus thought

And hurried towards his gargantuan mate

And sent in his haste, his blood boiling over

Rising the lumbering cold-blood’s metabolic rate



In the land of the cretaceous

Danger was headed his way

An enemy so pugnacious

A very unexpected delay



For another cretaceous giant faced him now

With saw like teeth and a pungent breath

Small clever hands, and dino-claws to boot

The colossal clash was fated to end in a death

The diplodocus stood silent, but not nearly scared

And the Tyrannosaurus Rex roared in his rage

The ground thundered beneath the battling titans

The greatest battle of the Maastrichtian age



In the land of the cretaceous

A diplodocus so enamored

A Tyrannosaurus so voracious

Has never since occurred



A fight between two towering lizard lords

As spirals of dust wound slowly skyward

In a clash of teeth and tails it was done

And victory was the diplodocine love’s reward

And on he ran towards his love’s abode

And dawn had broken, the moon had set

And a few longisquama buzzed him by

And in early light, the diplodoci finally met



In the land of the cretaceous

A he-diplodocus so audacious

A she-diplodocus so vivacious

In tender love so tenacious



And nothing so sweet when two lovers meet

The ardor made even giants to act with care

They intertwined in a long necked embrace

And naught was to disturb the enormous pair

Save for the visit from their extended family

A herd of laughing diplo-mas and diplo-pas

And diplo-children too, frolicked about

All thundering in their diplodocus applause



In the land of the cretaceous

They did love and multiply

An adventure most flirtatious

Beneath the cretaceous sky