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wordwizard
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0 posted 2004-03-19 08:41 PM



With a tapered tubular snout
an extended claw exerts its clout
ant colony beware of burrowing skills
expert limbs plow on collective kills..


The armadillo does much the same
but becomes a ball when hunted game
laps up termites on a sticky tongue
licks the grass over the insect rung....

What would we do without these creatures
would we lose sight of anteater features,
they're not needed for man's food table
their presence might end much as a fable.




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1 posted 2004-03-20 06:56 AM


Wordwizard,
Sure hope its presence won't become a fable.
I liked this and could picture it in an illustrated child's book of poetic verses about animals.  I have a book similar to that by either Jack Prelutsky or Eric Carle.  This type of book is especially popular in the primary classrooms because of the poetic value and the overlapping into non-fiction. Perhaps a collection?   Enjoyed.
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2 posted 2004-03-20 06:58 AM


Strangely you've picked my creative mind
the future holds what we will find


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3 posted 2004-03-20 07:14 PM


Great use of the pen on this write,
total rule over the poem , you placed a point in my mind ,i had forgotten ..coolness

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4 posted 2004-03-20 08:52 PM


thanks guy, there will be many others and there have been others under my other pseudo ecrivan


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