By Aditya Maheshwary
The POCO LOCO:Written by-ADITYA.MAHESWARY
Long long time ago,
Poseidon was the king of the Sea.
At a hundred and one year old
He was 6 foot 43.
Green eyes and long gold hair,
an NBA player would have been scared.
He wore a long red cape,
And Sixteen Carat GOLD PLATED AIR JORDANS.
His trident belonged to his parents,
and was also quite modern.
He sits on his throne-
Touché Caradone.
Summon anyone he can, from the twelve realms.
Pressing down on his trident, he rules at the helm.
From Carodone, his home, he can oversee
the city of shells flooded by the Kree (local populace name).
Atlantis, Aeteatea, it has many names.
Poseidon rules it all, but he still is lame.
The crown of Poco Loco he needs,
to become a bigger King of the Sea.
What about the Chimera guarding it?
Poseidon can’t beat it, he is not too fit.
It killed his parents. What more do you expect?
The chimera killed his parents in a shipwreck.
The tunnel where he lives lies right below the valley of death.
The crown of Poco Loco lies beyond the Chimera’s breath.
Poseidon grabs his trident and takes a deep breath.
But one look at the part lion, part goat, and third of serpent’s tail,
the king of the sea almost fainted,
And ran out screaming scared.
So he tries to sneak in,
as monsters have eyesight
just as bad as a garbage bin.
But he stumbles on a stone and
Wakes the the chimera up,
White smoke hissing from his furry ears
Posiedon knows he's out of luck.
But his feet are frozen to the ground
And he moves too late,
The chimera gallops at 1000 k
And at this moment, Poseidon wrote his fate.
For Poseidon it's too easy-
He has the power of water.
As he drifts out of the tunnel,
He says, ‘take a photo & say cheese
#Chimera, this time I lost ya!’
Twiddling his thumbs and licking his wounds,
sitting on his throne, he counts his boons.
Poseidon knows he has one trick up his sleeve.
Old Master Zwishingzung’s* invisibility potion, he has to retrieve.
*zvee/shing/zung
Poseidon asks Zwishingzung for the invisibility Potion,
He replies, ‘go beat the cyclops
in the Underworld right above tartarus
in the Land of the lotion.’
The Old Master pulls out an old map,
The date marks the ax.
Zwishingzung says the good thing is that you don't need to pay tax.
But that’s not true, Posiedon thinks
As Hades isn’t cheap.
He likes to be paid
A gift or two,
so Posiedon digs in his pocket deep.
He calls up Hades and says,
‘I will give you your helm of darkness
back and play a game of chess,
If you give me safe travel to and back
From the underworld.’
Hades, without blinking, says, yes!’
The battle between Posiedon and Cyclops doesn't last long,
He challenges the one eyed monster to a one vs one battle,
The first to draw blood will hold strong.
But Poseidon is not king of the sea for nothing
and he is fast,
He attacks the cyclops beneath his underarm, and barfs.
The smell slows him down, and he wrinkles his nose, aghast!
The cyclops gets offended and bruises his own cheek.
The king draws first blood,
And the cyclops goes whining home, looking rather bleak.
Now he goes back to Zwishingzung
and drinks the invisibility potion.
He takes his trident
and gets ready in formation,
He sprints right beside the chimera
in pin drop silence,
He snatches the POCO LOCO,
but realizes his potion is worn off,
And starts to attack in violence.
The chimera is agile, she swishes her tail
She roars like a lion, and bleats out a wail,
but Posiedon is magical and summons a water horse,
who sprints him to safety
leaving the Chimera at a loss.
OH MY GOD!
He actually escaped.
He made it out of the tunnel,
He finally caught a break.
He wore the crown of Poco Loco, and
as he sat down on his throne, he laughed, ‘ha ha ha,’
but it sounded a little forlorn.
I am the biggest king out here, he thought,
But why do I feel so alone
-ADITYA. MAHESHWARY
Adi, that is an amazing poem! I absolutely love it. Poems are just your forte, aren’t they?