The Eye of the Beholder

07/05/2020 – Iso Well-Being Compilation

 

The Blobfish is rarely seen

In your local fish and chip shop

Because it lives in the deepest waters

And looks like Jabba the Hut.

But there’s a sad beauty

To this deep-sea creature

That draws you in

With its gelatinous form.

 

The Naked Mole Rat is cute

In the same way, it must be said,

As a penis with teeth surely is,

And that isn’t very much at all.

The queen of these sand puppies

Has a colony like that of a bee

Which she keeps on a tight leash

Except when it comes to breeding

 

The Proboscis Monkey has a nose

That would put Monsieur Bergerac to shame

He uses it to lure the ladies

To his jungle hideaway.

But that’s not his only quality,

With a bloated stomach filled with gas

Caused by a diet of unripened fruit

He is a gaseous mess.

 

The Star Nosed Mole is amazing

At feeling its way through the ground

With a nose that looks like two stars

Exploding in the night sky.

The rest of the creature’s quite reasonable,

It’s furry and small and cute.

From the back it’s decidedly handsome

But from the front it might give you a start.

 

The Aye-Aye is a bit of a no-no,

With big ears and big eyes to match;

Its fingers seem to go on forever,

And its hair is sparse in the least.

Though it looks like something you’d see

In a horror film or nightmare,

This adorably ugly critter

Is happy to just hang out instead.

 

The Axolotl can regenerate limbs

That it might lose in a fight for its life.

But it’s its pale countenance

That gives it most of its startling look.

Well, along with red fringe

It wears like some sort of scarf,

That are really gills turned out

And allow the unfortunate to breathe.

 

The Warthog is mighty fine

In animated form on the screen

But in real life is not so pretty

Even when it’s had a mud bath.

Its tusk, they do protrude

From a frightfully weathered face,

They’re an effective form of defence

Against predators and other unruly hogs.

 

The Common Celestial Goldfish

Might have a name that is fancy

But its eyes are perched oddly

On the side of its head.

They’re much too large for the rest of it,

As if they had been inflated,

Giving an altogether unusual form

For this otherwise ordinary fish.

 

The Kakapo might be a parrot

But it lacks the style and the grace

Of most of its feathered brethren

An ugly duckling never to be a swan.

But its size gives it some majesty,

So large it cannot fly,

Calling from the ground to its mate

Its colours a gorgeous sight.