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Open Poetry #48

Maurice Sendak

2islander2
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since 2008-03-12

Posts 6825
by the sea

0 posted 2012-05-10 01:27 PM

I saw a monster
entering through the window,
with horns of buffaloes
and a nose of elephant,
teeth of cannibals
and the ears of tapir,
I hid under sheets
and I stopped inhaling,
the monster approached the kitchen,
it ate all the fritters
and mom scolded him,
she said to me
“never never you will read mister Sendak”,
I am too much afraid
that you too eat me one day,
that you become a monster
with horns of buffaloes
and a nose of giraffe,
as your father
who this morning
left me with the woman near-by,
On horseback on a hippopotamus
which learnt to cook in a bagpipe
and to swim in a clock
all at same time.

Startime1955
Senior Member

since 2012-04-22

Posts 1072
Alberta, Canada

1 posted 2012-05-10 02:51 PM

A physiologist would have a hayday taking this poem apart...powerful...

*may our dreams ever be magical*

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