Fantastic horned beasts

Appear only to virgins

Which is why they're gone...

I bet you dolphins

think to themselves in haikus,

that's how smart they are.

From the ashes comes

Fiery wings rising stronger

Than ever before.

Between dawn and dusk

Red flashes in and out of shadow

Sly, cunning, and stealthy

Social and well groomed

Park bench or Park Avenue

Devouring each other.

The bird waddles on---

"But silly, little penguin,

You forgot your egg!"

Slow yet consistent

Moving a determined pace

To finish the race.

Labelled a killer,

it is not all black and white,

even though I am.....

The gentle sea cow

Beautiful, intelligent

Sadly, endangered

Sun behind the old

oak. A beak against the bark;

below it, a squeak.