slanting sharply

:Slanting Sharply:

A sadness came on me today
with insight into what high price
extinction is to pay

Set among familiar friends
from dubious past though now
toward productive end
a feline introduction has been made

Two zoo white tigers are set to
as crisis family plans are laid

Yet done to death
was white wife's fate
at tooth and fearsome claw
of her enraged white tiger mate

I knew them somewhat slightly
skewed as viewed through bar of cage
They are fantastic yet
from two instead of more
lies one more White Siberian Tiger dead

and thoughts of what extinction means
sharply slanting in my head

An educated sign nearby
sounds forlorn rain forest cry
one forty dead that's 1 4 0
on each and every average day
whole species simply slip away

and thoughts of what extinction means
slant sharply in my head


original poem
Mark Shepherd
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[reliablebow]

I walked with You as you told this story...I like Your poetry and reading...thank You

[dashpoet]

@reliablebow Glad to share the thoughts and memories! Thank you.

[88yp88yp]

Thoughtful and reflexive!

[dashpoet]

Delighted you think so, thank you.

[fywssEnglishTV]

Absolutely inspiring!

[dashpoet]

Thank you so much, great to hear from you.

[mindovermatter2009]

it already has mono.yikes..

[dashpoet]

A lovely comment to receive, thank you. It is marvelous to think that something like a poem can achieve that. There is hope for us all!

[IvyBedouin9]

Thoughts like these sometimes hit us unexpectedly. It is as if we hear of important threats such as extinction so often that we become disensitized to it and forget the impact it carries. Then on a quiet day the weight of those words falls upon us again. Beautiful Mark, it made me connect with that feeling; such a great piece.

"Thoughts of what extinction means

slant sharply in my head." Beautiful words.

[dashpoet]

... why am I still an optimist?!