Sunday 29 September 2013

OF FEATHER, CLAW AND FUR:



Within wintery mists, of her cold belonging,
The bear, through green woods, softly plodding,
Wary of errant hunter & his plot of sorry baiting,
Down to iced streams of salmon, silver & waiting.

Stealthy moved old wolf, in haunting moonlight,
Soft howling, deep within the throat of midnight,
Dodging traps & upright beasts, all with loaded guns,
Down to prairies old, where the sacred bison runs.

Beyond rock eyries & towards thermals in the skies,
Wings wide spread, of talons, plumes & beady eyes,
Watching ever vigilant, errant tracks of greedy man,
And swooping, down deep towards the fauna´s land.

Thinking earth is his alone, is what leads man to err,
It belongs to feather too, claw & to each beast of fur,
Hunter then becomes the hunted, in the fight to death,
Dying, a work in progress, until earth breathes last breath.

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