ANIMAL TANKAS
(Can You Guess Them?)
A grey mountain moves
Trunk packed, no passport needed
Ears cooling tall trees
Flapping theatre curtains
On the fruit flecked wordly stage
A dart in shadows
Whiskers twitching cello strings
Cake crumbs are quavers
On the stave of his visage
A sunbeam the resined bow
Long nose elegance
Termite dance futility
Twilight adventures
Strong claws a gratuity
On the equator's tightrope
Nut nibbler furtive
Turning his breakfast slowly
Watchful sequined eyes
Centres of spiral galaxies
Bushy tail a semaphore
Cooling the burning
Depths of a green muddy pool
Drowning memories
Leopard bested hours ago
Bear digested yesterday
Down the forest path
Someone dropped a walking stick
A green stick that lives
And moves without needing legs
Faster than a hobbling man
Broad sail on his back
Scaly schooner majestic
Like an arrow shot
From the horizon's bowstring
Over the curve of the world
Drumming on the ground
Building a many arched bridge
Across the sand sea
As it hurries to escape
all possible pickpockets
Emerging from bushes
Ears longer than crescent moons
Feasting on soft grass
Dressed with sweetish evening dews
And dozing on small flowers
Perched on sloping roofs
Of buildings that mimic cliffs
Cuboid cave studded
And shrieking at each other
While the troglodytes study
Rhys Hughes has lived in many countries. He graduated as an engineer but currently works as a tutor of mathematics. Since his first book was published in 1995 he has had fifty other books published and his work has been translated into ten languages.
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