As you probably learned in grade school, a haiku is a three-line Japanese verse form with simple rules: the first line has five syllables, the second line has seven syllables, and the last line has five syllables. Here's a selection of original dinosaur haiku; you can use the form at the bottom of this page to submit your own!
Meet the big bonehead:
Pachycephalosaurus.
Is he thick, or what?
Why did the Moschops
Cross the road? Well, let's hope he
Saw the "Walk" sign first.
"What small arms you have,"
Said the dumb stegosaur to
the hungry T. Rex.
Velociraptors:
Small, famished, feathered chickens.
Walk slowly away.
"Me? Extinct? Never!"
Cried the vain Triceratops
hearing the loud "Boom!"
Brachiosaurus:
As tall as a house, and more.
Bring your own ladder.
A walnut-sized brain,
a skyscraper-sized body:
Disaster beckons.
In a race between
two elasmosaurs, expect
a neck-and-neck tie.
An ichthyosaur
(emphasis is on the "ick")
took a nice mud bath.
Man orders a meal:
supersized Supersaurus.
Much indigestion.
Why don't pterosaurs
have feathers? Maybe their skin's
aerodynamic.
Duck-billed dinosaurs:
Quack! Quack! Sorry, they really
roared, like all the rest.
Boy, am I hungry!
A Futalognkosaurus
Would sure hit the spot.
Protoceratops:
It was just like a pig, but
much, much scalier.
Conifers, cycads,
gingkoes: the perfect salad
for a dinosaur.
In the Triassic
tiny Hylonomus spawned
a mighty fanged race.
Brachytrachelo-
pan, Parasaurolophus,
Dang, I've run out of
A small dinosaur
Whether predator or prey
Left big impressions
(contributed by S. Khalsa)
Ah, lovely mud bath
Landslide is a-coming
Fossil forever
(contributed by Beth Peterson)
A T. Rex named Sue
Lives at the Field Museum
Sometimes she travels
(contributed by Vanessa Richins)
"I stepped in something,"
says paleontologist.
It was some pay dirt.
(contributed by Fashion Kitty)
Hadrosaurus bones
Found in Haddonfield proved that
Dinosaurs were real
(contributed by Nancy Chambers)
Look at them going,
They're running from extinction.
Run, Triceratops, run!
(contributed by Franklin Williams)
