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Buffalo Hunt |
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jwesley Member Rara Avis
since 2000-04-30
Posts 7563Spring, Texas 
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Buffalo Hunt Huge, deep-dark brown, almost black, the bull snorted, eyed the two Indians on horseback approaching steadily from his left. Angrily, proudly, he snorted again, plowed the ground with his foot, shook his massive, shaggy head, bellowed and began to run. Hoof to hump the bull, half-a-head taller than most men, ten feet from nose to bushy tail tip, half-covered in coarse, black, curly hair, weighing close to a ton, shook it's huge horned head, a challenging bellow-roar rising above the cacophony of hoofbeats and bawls from the herd on his right. Humps heaving up and down like the prows of ships besting the seas in the midst of tempest the herd created choking clouds of dust, filled with the cloying odor and stench of great beast in panicked flight. Foamy spittle spilling wind-whipped from it's mouth, the mamoth bull cut from the herd running full bore at the nearest horseman who'd come too close; in one fluid motion, never missing a step, it gored savagely into the horse's side, tossing horse and rider over it's shoulder, spun in it's tracks, caught the second horse square in the chest, stumbled back on it's haunches, stopping the horse, dead. The massive buffalo rose, nuzzled the crumpled rider, lifted it's nose to the sky, bellow-roared loud and long, pawed the earth in great clumps of grass-dirt, shook it's great body and began to run… w. james beard, jr. © January 2001 |
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Paula Finn Member Ascendant
since 2000-06-17
Posts 5546missouri |
Jimmy...the hunter becomes the hunted...I can just SEE this happening...the panic stricken horses...the bull massive and magnificent in his strength...at least by the Indian he was hunted for all the right reasons...wonderful poem We all have wings...some of us don't know why |
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Agust P Member
since 2000-12-29
Posts 157 |
what a painting, heavy, very well done, keep on writing my friend, AP |
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laryalee Member
since 2000-06-19
Posts 352Alberta, Canada |
What an awe-inspiring scene - such marvellous detail, it leaps from the page - I can smell it, see it, feel it... One of the best descriptive poems I've read! Absolutely top notch! Lary |
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jwesley Member Rara Avis
since 2000-04-30
Posts 7563Spring, Texas |
Thank you my friends...magnificant animals indeed. Used to work with them in a zoo and they were to be respected. Very fast. jwesley [This message has been edited by jwesley (edited 02-03-2001).] |
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jwesley Member Rara Avis
since 2000-04-30
Posts 7563Spring, Texas |
oops! too fast to reply here - thought I was in a different piece. Sorry. j. [This message has been edited by jwesley (edited 02-04-2001).] |
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Mother_Earth Senior Member
since 2000-11-20
Posts 13701/2 year Texas & 1/2 year Michigan |
I am trying to get the dust out of my nose and eyes to tell you this is a great piece to a great animal. I have seen many , in ND, up close and personal and they are GREAT. I liked this muchly. ME |
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jwesley Member Rara Avis
since 2000-04-30
Posts 7563Spring, Texas |
Nice to know you enjoyed the piece ME, especially with you personal experience with them. Can't make him as beautiful as Marge does, but he, too, can be a winner in the hunt. jwesley [This message has been edited by jwesley (edited 02-04-2001).] |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
James! What a scene....and I did so like the fact that in this instance, the buffalo was triumphant, although a horse lover I am... well done Sir! |
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