The Rhinocerosaur

The Rhinocerosaur is half rhino,

Half T-Rex. He is now extinct

From the Houston Arboretum,

But he still lives in a training center

In my backyard.

I got him from an egg

That was in the ground

He smells like cologne

And feels slimy.

My Rhinocerosaur loves to perch.

He makes a luko-liko sound.

I have to use sign language

To talk to him.

By Damien, 2nd Grade

Click the link above to listen to the poem read on KPFT radio by Mia Coyle, a 7th grader at Johnston Middle School For the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston.

This poem is featured as part of the 2013 A Poem a Day campaign, a National Poetry Month celebration by Writers in the Schools (WITS) that features a different poem by a WITS student every day during April. Click here to learn more. 

Special thanks to Susan Phillips, an independent radio producer in Houston, who recorded and produced all the poems for the WITS A Poem a Day campaign.