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ecrivan
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my own state

0 posted 2004-09-12 09:55 PM



As bodies go streamlined,
Selected to hear acute sounds
destined to end up on a lion's plate
or contribute to a pauper's platter
would it be better to follow a career
with implicated dawn to dusk routines clear?
Might as well forage for some thicket leaves
enjoy the stretch of a bountiful African plain
as a graceful creature to be hunted
marked for some biological control
an ever continuous fodder for nature shows
that exact a hunt and chase routine
a streamlined chase, a shortened text
with an abridged version, the weak fall behind
I am the antelope that to escape my fears,
constantly crouched in the savannah brush...
reasons for my flight will lunge free
adrenalin shall course dilated veins
and as hunted bodies go streamlined
I'll run as the grassland gazelle.
take leaps instead of steps
free until the next abridged chase.



[This message has been edited by ecrivan (09-13-2004 01:26 AM).]

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Earth Angel
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1 posted 2004-09-12 10:31 PM


My own heart started racing as adrenaline coursed through my body! There are predators both on and off of the savannah! ~ and I often feel as though I am an antelope as well!

A stirring write! ~ A riveting read!


EA

ecrivan
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2 posted 2004-09-12 10:38 PM


meant to rivet..thanks for your input Linda


passing shadows
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3 posted 2004-09-13 01:07 AM


well done!
ecrivan
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4 posted 2004-09-13 01:27 AM


better to have made a statement in the end than ask an incomplete question...thanks for sharing Passing


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