Psycho Poetry

Aardvark (contest entry)

Aardvark

Aardvark's a nocturnal nomad oddball,

A driven earth-pig resembling no other,

Africa is his monumental desert home,

Ants were customary devoured fodder.

Ant-bear trudges with elongated claws,

Ably against encounters or to unearth,

Ants are taken by a long sticky tongue,

Accruing him a lumbering chunky girth.

Aardvark chose the weird name Stubby,

Addressing his unusual swollen feature,

Africa unfolded an ancient ground-sloth,

Allowing him to exist one gritty creature.

Ant-bear has the toughest leathery skin,

Although Stubby was certainly not safe,

Acreage meant marauding hungry lions,

Across grasslands they'd eagerly strafe.

Awakened by nightfall and ready to feed,

Alertly smelled a termite gluttonous meal.

Ant-bear paws up a magical blue-lit stone.

Amethyst said, your bidding soon reveals!

Anything? the suspicious Stubby answers.

Activate me with your imaginative wishes!

A Stegosaurus tail could outdo wonderful,

And trim my hideous rabbit-ears smallish!

Are you sure you want those? stone said.

Aardvark grunts, please-please one more.

Attach wings so I can escape dire danger.

Abruptly the earth shook a chilling uproar!

Amethyst immediately transforms Stubby.

Ant-bear had flappers on his piggy-head!

A brawny tail became his formidable club.

Ask nothing else for they will never shed!

Admiring the magnitude his tail endowed,

Analyzing the mighty glossy-black airfoils,

Alluding these limbs have a saving grace,

At sunrise his feathers mature and uncoil.

Aardvark thrusts his wings in a tryout run,

Air elevates earth-pig way up into the sky,

Ant-mounds appeared a cakewalk to find,

Arced maneuvers over nosy lions to defy.

All was well until a crash-landing incident,

Aardvark was clumsily heavy on the front.

Absent centre balance had Stubby jinxed,