Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Unique Momma

Unique, a word the humans use

To describe my animal kind.

Called a platypus, I enthuse

Study of me by human mind.

As a female mammal I lay

Eggs in an ivy covered nest,

Burrowed safe under and away

To avoid any threat and pest.

When hatched my "puggles" then be fed

By my mother's good milk which flows

Not from teats but from pores instead,

Pooled on my tummy, my young nose.

In the burrow the king's not seen.

The young are raised by momma queen.