Shongololo
Giant African millipede (Archispirostreptus gigas)
Picture poem by Rebecca
Shongo-lo-lo, shongo-high-high, shongo-round-and-round-and-side-to-side.
Shiny bronze shell, feather-fringe of feet, coiled up tight!
This poem is copyright (©) Rebecca Rouillard 2025
About the Writer
Rebecca Rouillard
Rebecca Rouillard’s writing has appeared in various online and print anthologies, including Watermarks: Writing by Lido Lovers and Wild Swimmers (The Frogmore Press, 2017), Dragons of the Prime: An Anthology of Poems about Dinosaurs (The Emma Press, 2019), 100 Voices (Unbound, 2022), Night-Time Stories (The Emma Press, 2022), and she was the winner of the 2017 Mslexia Novel Competition. She is the 11+ panel chair for the Spark! School Book Awards and works as a school librarian in South-West London.
