Life is short…

The feathers came loose
Out of the one that hoots
His furious eyes staring
in the dark September clearing.

The green 6 foot slithers
Nowhere to sleep
His dangerous fangs
Ready to bite deep.

Throngs of enraged dead
Gathered within my reach
Haunting eyes glared at me,
Shouting relentlessly.

As the fierce wind blows
Their thick branches bled
From insulting battle wounds,
painful, abysmal and red.

Nevertheless,
With mighty strength
their vengeful fists
whipped and lashed at length.

I ran
As fast as I can
But their eyes were scary
Rushing towards me… angry.

For they cared for
All these children…
A million and one once breathing
Now, sick and suffering.

Carnage everywhere
Black, brown and gray
Battles never won
Destroyed a thousand and one.

See, I never really knew
That this would ever happen
I’m just a blogger
And not nature’s keeper.

Okay, okay I’m blatantly lying
I’m really a blogger…
A blogger, you see
An abominable blogger…
Really, minus the “b”.

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Comments (14)
  • LoveDoctor on Sep 1, 2011

    You paint a very good picture with the images.

  • eaa1118 on Sep 1, 2011

    The environmentalist surfaces here, it seems, in “blogger” “minus the ‘b’ “–who notes the effects of his work (or participation in robbing nature of its natural state) on bird, reptile, and angry returnees from the dead…

    Stimulating piece!:-) Thank you:-)

  • Martin Kloess on Sep 2, 2011

    very good

  • megamatt09 on Sep 2, 2011

    A great work of poetry.

  • zulfikar on Sep 3, 2011

    remarkable

  • Melody SJAL on Sep 3, 2011

    Your words are so picturesque, and your last line made me smile.

  • Ruby Hawk on Sep 3, 2011

    It\’s something we will all pay for, our beautiful forests laid waste, and nature as we knew it will never be the same. Your poem states it beautifully. By the way, my brother in law is a logger.

  • juliachild on Sep 3, 2011

    Good share.

  • papaleng on Sep 5, 2011

    A very descriptive poem. you have my like!

  • Eunice Tan on Sep 8, 2011

    Well done.

  • tod on Sep 8, 2011

    Good Poem, this one made me smile and make my day alive. I like it thanks

  • Jason Starks on Sep 10, 2011

    nice

  • naruto100 on Sep 22, 2011

    Ha ha.. Good poem on blogger..Just a blogger ..lol

  • ImKarn23 on Oct 18, 2011

    mmmmm…very deep and very personal..
    not simple – i like to have to read it twice..
    thanks

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