I am a crab.
My pincers crush white sea shells
And pinch human toes.
I bury myself in the golden sand.
When you try to catch me
I scurry sideways like a drunk,
And scamper diagonally
Across your path
And disappear.
Sometimes though,
I am trapped in a salty rock pool,
And it is my prison.
Here I am at the mercy
Of the seagulls
And the boys who come
With red plastic buckets,
Squealing with pleasure
When they scoop me up.
I am a crab.
My hard brown bony shell
Is like a shield
And I carry my pinching tools
Like a proud warrior.
Leave me alone to fight
In the battlefields of the sea!
In this poem the poet has imagined being a crab. He uses many
similes. Write a similar poem where you are a different animal
(maybe a snake or a spider)
