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0 posted 2001-04-10 03:06 PM


Out on the ice that he calls home.
a great, white bear begins to roam.
He tests the breezes with his nose
and strikes a sudden, watchful pose.
He's hungry and is now aware
that somewhere, there are seals out there,
so where their breathing holes are found,he'll watch and wait, without a sound,
but if he's in the mood for fowl,
the sea-bird rookeries he'll prowl
and even lemmings, brown and small,
he'll hunt and eat them, fur and all.

The female polar bear will find
a southern slope, with den in mind
and dig a hole, her cubs to hold.
Deep in the winter's dark and cold.
They're born so tiny.  They grow fast
and when the springtime comes at last,
she paws a door and they go forth
to learn about the frozen north.

Betty Lou Hebert

© Copyright 2001 Betty Lou Hebert - All Rights Reserved
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1 posted 2001-04-10 06:43 PM


Good read. All life recycles.
Melton

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2 posted 2001-04-10 07:30 PM


This is nice Betty.  What a hardy bunch they are.  Joyce
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3 posted 2001-04-11 01:33 AM


Cute poem with knowledge built into it. Great work.

Ronil (Inspiration for my poems is all around me for my muse is my reality.)

wordancer
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4 posted 2001-04-11 10:44 AM


All you ever wanted to know about polar bears...actually I have always found any bear to be fasinating.  Thanks for the read.

WO

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5 posted 2001-04-11 07:39 PM


To the Inuit, the "Great Bear" is the most feared of spirit beings, for they hunt man.
Good read.  

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I.G. Norance

Andrew Scott
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6 posted 2001-04-11 07:48 PM


One of my favorite animals.  Thanks for the pictures in my head.  Peace!
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7 posted 2001-04-11 08:03 PM


Thanks everyone for reading and commenting. I have always been fascinated by polar bears......from a distance! I had a very close encounter with a black bear last summer and he was much smaller than a polar bear, but the "fright factor" was definitely there!

Betty Lou Hebert

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