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wordwizard
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on the way to next world

0 posted 2004-04-07 12:50 PM



They live to nuture, defend a brood
life a constant search for food;
in the realm of the perennial grassy plain
with canine teeth, no longer the same...

Remember an Eskimo woman left to her own devices
soon aged, a once transporter of exotic spices
decrepit, she sits still on frozen ice...
teeth unable to grasp leather as a vice..

Those teeth once used to nip at the hide
gave an elder an added sense of pride;
a purpose or reason to fight the element
that surrounded arctic ice floe scents.

On the savannah, the tigress breeds and basks
goes about her daily parental tasks;
and feeds a cub until the age of two
unless one's not carted off to a zoo...


A tigress dies in the brush from inflicted wounds
tallied her hunt based on the season's monsoon;
her old human cousin also reached a determined end
with teeth now gone, what more life was there to spend


© Copyright 2004 ecrivan




© Copyright 2004 Martin Dansky - All Rights Reserved
passing shadows
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1 posted 2004-04-07 02:42 AM


very touching

indeed

Sunshine
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2 posted 2004-04-07 10:01 AM



I like the mirror of this, Ecrivan.
I sense the two of them, peering within
the silvered face, and seeing beyond.

A good write.  Very good.

Earth Angel
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3 posted 2004-04-07 11:00 AM


Another creative write from your illustrious pen, Dear Wizard of Words! Your images were so powerful that I could envision them in my mind's eye.


EA

JL
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4 posted 2004-04-07 11:09 AM


Very nice!
JL

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