Eight-line Poems

Dawn

Dawn

Another day, another hadrosaur,
thought Fred.
Out on the plains, the sun rose,
red in the early morning,
and Fred’s bleary eye peered
from the tree ferns,
consumed with dreams of breakfast
in his giganotosaurus mind.


Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 07.13.23
Prompt: Write a long-ago poem.
Notes: Hadrosaurids, or duck-billed dinosaurs, are members of the ornithischian family Hadrosauridae.
Giganotosaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaur that lived in what is now Argentina, during the early Cenomanian age of the Late Cretaceous period, approximately 99.6 to 95 million years ago. Wikipedia