Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Extinct
by Olivia

Extinct was, not is
And now is nevermore
For sadly, this
Word is a lost word,
For extinct means dead
Dinosaurs,
Dodos,
Passenger pigeons,
And the gossamer-winged,
the purple and azure,
The Xerces Blue butterfly,
All extinct
They no longer exist
On Earth

3 comments:

  1. I love yourpoem becauseithas great words andi like how you used examples of extinct animals.

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  2. I love the language in this poem! Beautiful!

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  3. When our teacher read this to us I thought, she is using wonderful language!

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