Dino and Dracula

a fantasy poem about a dinosauer meeting Count Dracula and what happens next................

Dino and Dracula

 

Dino the friendly Dinosaur 

Liked to stroll in the park

One night he saw Count Dracula

Lurking in the dark.

Dracula followed, then he pounced;

Poor Dino was out of luck.

Then Dino dodged, Dracula missed

And by his teeth -- in a tree --- he was stuck

 

Dino decided the safest move

Was to hurry home to his bed,

He didn’t bother to look around

To put it quite simply – he fled!

Dracula pulled free --- turned into a bat

And flew for Dino’s huge neck

Drac had been ‘dry’ for three thousand years

And was having a drink now – by heck.

 

Dino felt long teeth sliding home

To bury themselves in his throat

He decided to fight – right to the end

Over his body -- the count would not gloat.

Dino was strong. He staged quite a fight

Not even having to think.

Dracula clamped his jaws extra tight

So desperate was he – for a drink.

 

They struggled and thrashed – bushes destroyed

Dino’s roars were rousing the town

Drac held on – ‘twas a fight to the end

And dozens of trees tumbled down.

Count Drac was too strong -- Dino expired

---- His body quite still in moonlight.

Then his shadow stirred and a dinosaur bat

took off – and flew out of sight.

 

Dracula stood still - Dino’s blood on his chin

Eyes open in pure disbelief

As Dino flew off in the starry night

------still attached to Dracula’s teeth!

Now Count Dracula sleeps alone in the dark

With his gums – still red -- and so sore

And as he can’t drink with false dentures

He does not bite necks --- any more.

 

©Copyright jen -JG

Author's Note

a fun write - what do you think - any improvements required?

Reviews

[Harlequinn Diamond]

Oh wow
Absolutely Fabulous..
Great Rhyming! xo

[Emily B]

I didn't expect the ending--at all. A humorous tale.

[Mark Pearce]

There are a few places where the sentences or thoughts can be restructured so the lines will flow more naturally or more rhythmically, but this piece is darling. (And I don't think I have ever been moved to used that word in a review before.)

The juxtaposition of a dragon and Dracula is daft. Just the kind of daft that I enjoy exploring. And the finish is a finish.

Fun. Fun. Fun.

[fgsgdsf]

Dino the friendly Dinosaur
Liked to stroll in the park
One night he saw Count Dracula
Lurking in the dark.
Dracula followed, then he pounced;
Poor Dino was out of luck.
Then Dino dodged, Dracula missed
And by his teeth -- in a tree --- he was stuck


Haha,
These children's poems of yours are so enilightening!
This is deffinatly one of those kinds of things people will always have a giggle at, no matter how bad of a day its been

-Allie

[Tania Leigh]

lmao what a pair, these two! This is sooooo funny, Jen!

"Dracula stood still - Dino's blood on his chin
Eyes open in pure disbelief
As Dino flew off in the starry night
------still attached to Dracula's teeth!"

lol

[Alexander W. Quinn]

Absolutely silly and quite possibly the best thing I've read all read. :) While reading this I got the mental picture of the mascot for Count Chocula cereal fighting Barney the purple dinosaur. That's a great mental picture that I'm gonna carry all day with pride. :)

[Nick Erickson]

Very cute. Never thought of two cereal monsters fighting. Well done!!

[JC Fox]

I LOVED THIS! I never would have thought of a dinosaur and Dracula, what an excellent idea!

[Nicholas Hallows]

Fantastically amusing and fun to read! To begin with I was thinking it would make a nice poem to read to the children at school but I had changed my mind by the third stanza. I don't know how 7 year olds would handle the descriptions of death. probably a little too well these days.. :)