<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=368278" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sestina: Terminataur</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Enveloped by the glow of bedside light, <br>a small child listens spellbound to a plot.<br>A parent tells a story quite absurd<br>of cyborgs, birds and dinosaurs, most mean.<br>A science fiction tale of keen-edged claw<br>and culminating fast with time machine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘A fearsome shrewd reptilian machine<br>was lurking ‘mid striated cycad light.<br>His iridescent scaly skin and claw<br>advising ‘gainst the trespass of his plot.<br>A grey bird hovered close; what could it mean? <br>and conversation flowed; now that's absurd'! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Tyrannosaurus said, 'You're quite absurd', <br>'a cyborg bird with so-called time machine', <br>'and plans which sound both devilish and mean', <br>'involving death by catastrophic light'.<br>'You wish to beg my pardon for the plot', <br>'and ask respectfully to shake my claw'? ! ? ! ? ! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘The cyborg bird said, 'Cousin, take my claw', <br>'I'm your descendent, though it sounds absurd'.<br>'Our fourth millennium A.D. course is plot', <br>'whereby we triumph over man machine'.<br>'I'm here to guide the bird-made meteor light', <br>'so we can wing ascent; see what I mean'? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Just then a ratty mammal, snide and mean, <br>who hid within the cycad's curving claw, <br>quick swiped the heedless bird in dusky light<br>and thereby foiled cretaceous scheme absurd.<br>The meteor missed and dinosaur machine<br>retained its topmost spot, in spite of plot'.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The father closes zany fiction plot<br>and though his sharp-toothed grin looks wily mean, <br>he is a loving dinosaur machine.<br>The sleepy dino-child lets go his claw<br>and slips into a dreaming world absurd.<br>He kisses scaly snout and dims the light.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The moral here is both absurd and light.<br>I mean by this: Beware the bird machine<br>which may still plot to claim the upper claw.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Diane+Hine">Diane Hine</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=368278" data-title="Sestina: Terminataur de Diane Hine" data-description="Enveloped by the glow of bedside light, a small child listens spellbound to a plot. A parent tells a story quite absurd of cyborgs, birds and dinosaurs, most mean. A science fiction tale of keen-edged claw and culminating fast with time machine. ..."></div> </div> </div>

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