Kat Collins has presented a Wednesday Poetry Challenge — she has challenged me to write a poem about something most people find ugly, but which I find beautiful. Here it is:
Hippo
Jowly, toothy face,
Too fierce to be borne;
Two to three tons of nothing
but meanness
And rage, and vicious animal instinct.
Neither river nor land
Is safe. So big
Even
Salt-water killer crocodiles
Avoid her gaze.
Below the river, which
Looks so brown,
Is another place.
Safety for her get,
Bouncing beside her.
See her tusks, her teeth
Bared in a huge mouthy grin
So tiny fish
Can enter that scary place
And perform their underwater dentistry.
She is still fierce.
And yet she is lovable,
In all
Her bristling, lumpy
Beauty beneath the water.
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Love it! You really captured the idea of a hippo. I never would have thought of a hippo as beautiful.
I will try to find the video. Thanks! 😎
I like the lines with “lumpy beauty.”
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I like your poem. It is an unusual subject but you have made it beautiful. Thank you.
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