Ode to Reptiles
Your slippery scales or soft wrinkled skin
Your eyes can be large or sometimes just a dot
Bodies that are long or short
stubby or legless
You might be misunderstood
or mistaken for something else
Your personalities can differ
from calm to aggressive
Little feet to climb
Strong jaw to eat
Long body to move
You have things other animals don’t
patterns can be bright or dark and hidden
mostly never seen
You can look like moss or dirt
Some look like they have two heads
Some have a ball on their tail
Some you just leave alone
and admire
Some can eat paste, bugs, worms
Some can eat deer
Some can constrict
And it might be gross
but it's ok with me
I love them all
ISABELLA, 12
Texas
Rawson Sanders
I would like to thank my second grade teacher for telling my parents that I had dyslexia and sent me to rawson saunders.
UNDERSTANDING
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