Save Our Animals
Have a care, be aware,
soon our animals will be extinct.
Giraffes are chomping juicy green leaves
Cheetas run swiftly and lazy zebras lie in the shade.
Elephants spray water with wrinkly, floppy, muscular trunks
while hippos yawn like caves in the water.
Have a care, be aware,
soon our animals will be extinct.
Creatures of the turquoise sea flash like diamonds
the great white shark thrashes through a plume of spray.
Turtles fly through water like dark angels,
rainbow fish illuminate the sea with their neon exotic colours.
Have a care, be aware,
soon our animals will be extinct.
Scaly, slithering snakes glide through the forest,
alarming squawks surround the trees where red-eyed tree frogs grip.
Furry but dangerous polar bears prowl the white wastes.
Arctic foxes scavenge, clever sleek penguins glide through water.
Have a care, be aware,
soon our animals will be extinct.
Enchanted exotic eagles swoop high and low
undermeath the blazing midday sun.
The fierce hungry grizzly bear comes round to growl,
scaring everything in its path – but hunters are coming.
Have a care, be aware,
soon our animals will be extinct.
Small newts paddle slowly through the ancient river.
Piranhas snap their teeth as they catch their prey.
A single dragon fly hovers over the muddy bog.
Frogs leap from the pond’s surface and blow bubbles in delight.
Have a care, be aware,
soon our animals will be extinct.
We may have to say goodbye
if we don’t watch where we put our feet.
I am very proud of this poem the children put together with my guidance. They had so many ideas and so many beautiful ways of celebrating the animals of our planet. We could have gone on adding more environments and habitats all day!
Angela Topping 