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Post by heartfelt7 on Jul 4, 2012 9:46:51 GMT -6
Garden of Life
I live in a desert environment
where the land is scorched by Mother Nature
and scarred by human nature.
But if I am still and quiet, I can witness
extraordinary creatures living ordinary lives
right in my own back yard.
Just a blink of an eye startles the quail
either into the air or into the brush
where tiny chicks are herded and rushed.
A young road runner can forget to run
and fly awkwardly into a tree,
then turn and coo like a dove at me.
I have watched bees cut circles out of leaves
and roll them into little barrels
that they can hardly lift without a breeze.
A coyote thins the rabbits, there's a falcon in the sky,
and a rare javelina raids gardens nearby,
plus snakes and scorpions and lizards, oh my.
Lord, they are beautiful, wild and free,
yet they know to share the water
and wait for the rain together.
Let me walk softly on this earth as they do,
leaving no mark of pride, no scar from greed,
in this Garden of Life we call home.
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Post by glenn on Jul 4, 2012 15:08:48 GMT -6
very nice!
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Post by heartfelt7 on Jul 5, 2012 7:45:10 GMT -6
Thank you, Glenn. I wonder if we could start a little thread of wildlife stories, like "I once saw" type of thing??? I once saw a honey bee ram a humming bird so hard, the hummingbird almost fell. I don't think it stung it, but it did drive it away from the flowers. Wildlife doesn't always share (ha)!
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Post by glenn on Jul 5, 2012 15:13:17 GMT -6
I was hiking down a backcountry road early one morning, when I heard the most eerie sound I had every heard. Made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. I rounded a corner in the road and there I saw the source of the noise. A young bull was standing with his head part way inside a large metal culvert that passed under the road. The bull was bellowing loudly and the culvert acted like a megaphone to amplify the noise he was making, and to distort the bellowing in an eerie way.
I must admit I was a bit spooked, so when I saw the bull and realized what it was that was making the noise I had to laugh.
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Post by anirbas on Jul 5, 2012 20:28:48 GMT -6
Lovely, well written poem, Heart! I am going to have to give this one an exalt!
Also, enjoyed each of your little stories about wildlife. Glenn, yours cracked me up laughing!
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Post by heartfelt7 on Jul 6, 2012 8:22:40 GMT -6
I had to laugh too. I can just picture that bull being impressed with his own voice. I wonder what it sounded like?
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Post by anirbas on Jul 6, 2012 13:14:07 GMT -6
I know, right? I was laughing so hard when I read Glenn's offering, David came into the livingroom to see what all the giggling was about! I can only imagine how it might have sounded. The noise a bull makes is scary enough as it is, without amplification! lol
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Post by glenn on Jul 6, 2012 15:14:09 GMT -6
I had to laugh too. I can just picture that bull being impressed with his own voice. I wonder what it sounded like? It is hard to describe the sound a bull makes. Definitely not a "moo." Traditionally, it is said that bulls bellow: didyouknow.org/animals/animalsounds/And I suppose that is about right. Sort of a "mmmuughh" kind of noise bellowed out at very loud volume. And distorted by the culvert so that it sounded like it was coming out of the very earth itself. |
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Post by heartfelt7 on Jul 6, 2012 16:55:19 GMT -6
"out of the very earth?" That sounds SCARY - but I'm still laughing!!! I don't have a story to top that.
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Post by anirbas on Jul 6, 2012 23:05:32 GMT -6
I found a poem that seems to fit this thread like a glove:
"What will ambition do for me
that the fox, appearing
suddenly at the top of the
field, her eyes sharp and
confident as she stared into
mine, has not already done?"
–Mary Oliver
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Post by anirbas on Aug 12, 2012 20:52:57 GMT -6
eerie the sound that made a young man's hair
stand out from his head, brought his feet to pause
on the path they did trod as he listened carefully
to the strangest sound he'd ever heard-
ooooomuuuuggggghhhhhhhhhhh
no choir of angels ever this note sang...
but a curious bull in love with his own voice
did dare to amplify his aurical attributes
by showcasing them in a culvert in Canada
(lol)
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Post by heartfelt7 on Aug 13, 2012 20:38:43 GMT -6
The bull story makes me laugh all over again. Not too hard though because I have been suffering with your own malady - sciatica - for the last couple of weeks. Went for an x-ray today to rule out any bone problems, but can't do much. Not to mention that Phoenix had five record-breaking days of heat in just this last week. I'm a grouch!!!!!
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Post by anirbas on Aug 14, 2012 18:30:49 GMT -6
Oh, no, Explorer!!!!! My back feels for yours...This sciatica when it hits and hits hard isn't a laughing matter. So sorry to know you are now dealing with it, dear lady. I was in so much pain the first day, my doctor initially wanted to do an x-ray, but, decided to forego it til later because she didn't feel I could deal with it physically the first day she saw me. Then, my group of doctors wanted an MRI, but, by that time I had found out my insurance had ran out til my next rollover date. So, no x-ray or MRI. Sorry to hear the heat is stifling you, as well. Hang in there, darlin'. Ask your doctor to send you to a physical therapist concerning the sciatica. The physical therapy is what started bringing me out of the woods. The drugs, helped with the pain, but, the PT was my light at the end of the tunnel. Still doing my stretches at least twice a day-before I go to work and right after I come home from work. Take care, take it easy and be healed, sweet Heart!!!!!
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