A poem for Bella, my Chinese dwarf hamster in honour of National Pet Month, which coincides with the month of Shakespeare’s birthday…
Carpe Diem
O hamster mine, where are you roaming?
O stay and hear! your pumpkin seeds coming
That can be placed in your coconut bowl.
Come little Bella, you’ll soon be eating.
Journey’s end in seeds and carrots meeting—
Every wise hamster owner doth know.
When I couldn’t get crab apples I used horse chestnuts 
Adorable!
[…] Shakespeare for Hamsters Hannah Meiklejohn’s hamster likes poetry, so it seems. And pumpkin seeds. […]
A delightful poem for such a cute little hamster
Thank you. Yes she is so so cute
Surely he has to be called Hamsterlet, Prince of Denmark?! G
To burrow or not to burrow: That is the question;
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to hoard
The seeds and vegetables placed in my coconut,
Or to eat everything at once as they arrive.
And by eating, end all tunnelling?
Prithee, thou art as clever as Will himself.
Th’ hast spoken right, ’tis true.
The hamster wheel is come full circle…
G
it is so cute!!!!!!!!!
I have dwarf Hamsters they are adorable and so are yours
Thank you Rachael. She is my little beauty