Welcoming National Poetry Month

As promised, I'll kick off National Poetry Month with a poem from my poetry journal. This is an acrostic about a Hippopotamus. I don't write acrostics very often, but this one was fun to write.

Huge, grey beast

In the African river,

Pretending to be a

Polite, gentle giant

On his lumbering feet, but

Please take care

Oh, hippo watcher!

That big fella can get

AWFULLY

MAD, when

Unwanted visitors

Show up!