Bathed in Brilliance

SENSATIONAL HAIKU WEDNESDAY

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5/7/5

BATHED IN BRILLIANCE

See the ground below!

From the deep shade high above

It seems washed with gold.

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ANTIPODEAN MONSTERS!

Down here, in the Antipodes,

Floating in the Southern seas,

We walk upright and quite erect

Not up-side-down as some suspect!

Our bodies are, indeed, designed

With every organ so aligned,

As to copy, faithfully,

Bodies of all humanity.

Yet there was a time, some time ago,

When 'we' were not imagined so!

If you go back eight hundred years

A different view of 'us' appears!

Our continent was filled by these

Creatures known as Skiopades !

At least that's what all men believed.

(It wasn't true, and I'm relieved!)

'We' were known as Shadow-foot creatures

With the most obscure of features.......

Absolutely enormous feet

Designed to shelter 'us' from the heat!

'Our' looks expressed a great variety;

'We' were a truly odd society!

Great big lips and single eyes!

Oh how they could fantasise!

Above, see one of the illustrations;

What a feast for imaginations!

But, fear not, we are just like you,

Give or take a very few!

In fact, we're nobler and more smart;

Fair of feature, kind of heart!

Being the last to be created

We are much more highly rated!

I had better stop forthwith

Before I create another myth!

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