this poetry form was a bit challenging |
Alphabet Animals Alphabestiary poetry formAardvark, vacuuming the earth for dinner Bumblebee hummingbird, ruby throated luminescence Capuchin monkey, yellow maned acrobat through leafy trees Dung beetle, hard-shelled debris roller Elephant, female guardians, protecting the young Flamingo, pink dancers on salty stilts Gemsbok, long horned, graceful grazer Honey badger, white-backed, heart of a lion Iberian lynx, spotted feline predator with listening ears Japanese beetle, glowing green and brown, destroyer Kit fox, 12 inch tan predator, dessert dwellers Leopard, cayman wrestling ripping teeth Moray, dances through blue waves Narwhale, a unicorn's fantasy beneath the waves Octopus, 8-legged memory problem solvers Peregrine falcon, small billed, flying rodent killers Quail, small ground nesters with melodic cries Reindeer, antlered Santa's horses Shih tzu, loyal companions who know no fear Tortoise, thick legs carrying houses Unicorn fish, swimming unicorns in the sea Vulture, carrion eaters, landscape cleaners Walrus, sharped tusked, blubbery, mountain X-ray tetra fish. transparent tiny neon fish Yak, gigantic wooly mammoths Zebra shark, carpets the ocean floor with virgin births Each letter of the alphabet describes poetically an animal in human terms |