[Roger Slater]

Hunting in the Sky

Last night you gazed up at the stars
 and knew you saw Monoceros
because you felt the way you feel
 whenever you see a rhinoceros.

[Jim Hayes]

DT's

Whenever you see a rhinoceros
aswim with eight legs in the seas
it could be an octopussoceros.
It's that, or you've got the DT's.

[Jim Hayes]

A Grammatical Conundrum in the Wild

Whenever you see a rhinoceros
across my mind a thought crosses--
if two come by
is it rhinoceri
or is it rhinocerososses?

[John Whitworth]

I gotta horse! as that African chief used to yell out atracemeetings. I gotta horse! It may not be the fastest in the race but at least it's mine. Has anyone else used the given line AT THE END?

Be Kind

Be kind to God’s cuddlesome creatures
With their furry, agreeable features,
Their eager, affectionate eyes
And their dainty, diminutive size.
The squirrel, the mouse and the bunny,
Are docile, delightful and funny:
They will neither disgust nor offend;
You can look upon each as a friend.

But affection would be a mistake
In the case of the venomous snake,
Or the rabid and rancorous fox,
Or the sullen, malodorous ox,
Or the filthy, disease-ridden rat,
Or the hideous, bloodsucking bat,
And will strike you as purely prepocerous
Whenever you see a rhinoceros.

[Roger Slater]

Julie and I both used it at the end. Mine, though, is slight (although a perfect rhyme without resorting to a coinage).

[Orwn Acra]

Terese Coe did as well. I think hers is the best.

[Roger Slater]

There's eros in rhinoceros,
and yet nobody I know
fantasizes late at night
about a naked rhino.

**

Yes, I know it doesn't fit the assignment. But I'm thinking "words inside of words" these days since lots and lots of new "words inside words poems" for children will be in the new Bumbershoot tomorrow, written by the man who gave us "The Pig in the Spigot."

[John Whitworth]

Heavens yes. LOTS of people put it at the end. I just haven't been paying attention. Terese's effort is indeed the snake's ankles.

[Clive]

For rhymes, you will be at a losseros
whenever you see a rhinoceros.
You could try a slant rhyme, of coseros
whenever you see a rhinoceros,
or various kinds of dinoseros
(though they might be slightly preposeros).
For rhymes, you will be at a losseros
whenever you see a rhinoceros.

[Allen Tice]

Originally Posted by Terese Coe

Rhinoceros


I am the odd-toed ungulate
Much endangered here in the jungulate.
Why that should be is well beyond me,
But it’s something to do with my horn, my horn,
It’s something to do with my horn.

The truth is you’ll never be prosperous
Hunting for horn of rhinoceros—
There isn’t a stiffy this side of the Liffey
That ever was caused by my horn, my horn
That ever was caused by my horn.

Have you got it? That horn stuff is twaddle—
Now get on your camel and toddle.
I may not have brains, but you’ll have no remains
If you don’t see the point of the horn, the horn,
If you don’t see the point of the horn
Whenever you see a rhinoceros.

Mardon me, Padmini, mais je pense que "stiffy" est tres spiffy, and just magniloquent to rime it on Liffey. Isn't there another secret word?... qui que quo qua... can't remember now that fits there somehow?