Terror-Soar
Quetzelcoatlus, how did you fly ?
By gliding on thermals ? Rarely flapping ?
How did you launch your bulk to the sky ?
And your massive head not handicapping ?
Could you be becalmed ? Or even be-galed ?
If the breeze were too strong, could it blow you over ?
For every take-off, how many failed ?
Were you more a hopper than cloud-top rover ?
Quetzelcoatlus, how did you fly ?
When the zephyrs tugged you, how did you cruise them ?
No point to ask evolution why –
For you only grow wings if you need to use them.
Could you be grounded ? Or just never land ?
Soaring the oceans, wind in your hair ?
Did you make runways along the strand ?
The answers, alas, are up in the air…
By ‘wind in your hair’, I’m referring to their proposed feathers.
And since there are five of them shown above, should the painting be called Quatzelcoatli ? No. No it shouldn’t, as I’ve discussed here.
Rhyming Couplets 