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Ron K. Fox
Senior Member

since 2000-10-24

Posts 925

0 posted 2000-10-24 10:54 PM

I captured a fly with my hand.
A quick scoop and he was imprisoned.
I felt the tickle of his legs on my palm,
As he scurried in the darkness of his entrapment.
I heard the buzz of his tiny wings,
As he feverishly searched for an exit.
I thought for a moment,
What a superior being am I.
A simple squeeze would show that.
Yet I opened a window,
Opened my hand to set him free.
But the fly did not leave.
Maybe dazed, not believing his luck,
He sat there upon my palm.
Not believing his freedom lay before him,
He sat upon my palm.
Then he did wonderful things.
I watched him clean his wings,
With tiny animated legs.
Wash his face, so carefully, so thoroughly.
Then he turned his head from side to side,
Maybe a nod, an acknowledgment, a thank you,
For sparing his life.
I smiled.
A soft blow from my lips sent him onwards.
I thought for a moment,
Maybe the fly was the superior being,
Letting me realize,
Who am I,
To decide what lives and what dies?

SEA

Moderator

Member Seraphic

since 2000-01-18

Posts 22676
with you

1 posted 2000-10-24 10:57 PM

RK~ I was starting to get angry, messin with that poor fly,

then you ended this perfect!

Good Job!

-SEA

vlraynes
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-07-25

Posts 8229
Somewhere... out there...

2 posted 2000-10-24 10:59 PM

Ron-
   wow...i love this!
   i'm one of those people who
   everyone else thinks is nuts
   because i can't bring myself
   to kill a bug...lol.  i just
   figure they have as much right
   to be here as i do...and if they
   don't hurt me, i won't hurt them.
   anyway...this struck a chord with
   me.    enjoyed it much.

   -vicky

"...until you have read the verse on his
heart, you have not truely met the poet."
-vlraynes

Ron K. Fox
Senior Member

since 2000-10-24

Posts 925

3 posted 2000-10-24 11:05 PM

Thanks sea and vicky...my wife thinks i'm nuts when I carry bugs outside the house. hey, they're living creatures too. Woulnt wanta size 11 shoe stomping on me! Ron

StarGlow
Junior Member

since 2000-10-23

Posts 40

4 posted 2000-10-25 12:53 PM

love poems that make me think; in that split second, squeeze or release, we find our idenity? Great poem. Star

peppermint35
Senior Member

since 2000-05-28

Posts 1106
Texas, USA

5 posted 2000-10-25 05:56 PM

This is a great write and a great way to look at life!!!! I like the way you think!!!!

Peppermint
Life is a Wheel

Charisma

Member Ascendant

since 2000-09-30

Posts 5906
lost in blue pages

6 posted 2000-10-25 06:29 PM

you have done a great job,
Like your decision....and like your poem..
excellent penned

Charisma

LoriJaye
Junior Member

since 2000-10-23

Posts 34
Massachusetts USA

7 posted 2000-10-25 06:50 PM

Wow. This was profound...

I confess to being a bug-squisher - I will look at the pests a bit differently now...

=) LJ

"A smile is when your inner beauty comes outside."

Ron K. Fox
Senior Member

since 2000-10-24

Posts 925

8 posted 2000-10-25 10:54 PM

Hey bugs are people too...or is it people are bugs too? Ron

insect
Senior Member

since 2000-04-22

Posts 1014

9 posted 2000-10-25 11:29 PM

Nice writes!
I liked reading this.
I do the same for insects.

Alle'cram
Senior Member

since 2000-02-28

Posts 1816
Texas

10 posted 2000-10-25 11:39 PM

This is a keeper for sure.

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