Theorem
The zebra, large, on left,
The middle, less in heft,
The smallest, reft of heft.
The trio all approves,
A measured stance that proves,
A proven law with hooves.
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Ember Kite
It spurns the pull of ground,
With scorched and dappled brown,
As ember kindled new.
The frantic flaps of birds,
The Kite selects its line,
Each glide a crisp design.
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Amber Eye
That cheetah's amber eye
Dismisses far and nigh
As distance, petty lie.
The cheetah's eye and rip
Reveals a pink tongue's tip
With ivory's stern grip.
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Thank you so much.
Persistence
The woodpecker will peck,
Its cranium a wreck,
Until the knot unfolds.
The woodpecker shows none
Of finesse, just work done,
Its method yields but one.
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Evening Stillness
The evening settles round
To seek the lion’s ground,
His stillness most profound.
The glow shows calmer face
As if to find its place
Within a state of grace.
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Zig-zag Patience
Coiled cheetah waits in place
The dik-dik's zig-zag feet
For straight lines leave no trace
The cheetah's hum is low
The dik-dik's zigzag dash
They sketch survival's throe
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Monochrome Geometry
A line of pure design
That mocks the careful plan
Escapes the board's confine.
Zebra, negative space,
A mirage in the dust,
Moves with a knowing grace.
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Lion Lads
The sun prolongs its stay,
Watching lion cubs play,
Lest haste disturb their way.
A tumble, a tussle,
Etiquette in bustle,
For their eager hustle.
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I know the Ol Pejeta Conservancy. They are doing great work.
Imminent Thrust
The egret's poised to lift
From meadow's quiet shift
The meadow's agile calm.
The egret's sleek and drawn,
It lunges - spring deployed,
In flooded meadow's sight.
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Taken at the Amboseli National Park in Kenya. Just north of Mt. Kilimanjaro.
Glass-like Depths
The wildebeest wades through
The glassy waters’ blue,
Its modest passage due.
Its progress: ripples spread
Beneath an azure dead,
To where the banks are led.
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Brutish Progress
Rhino's heavy tread comes near,
He tramples qualms, feels no fear;
For weak knees, second thoughts near.
The rhino does not faff, no,
It flattens all the lot, so
Then presses onward, not slow.
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Virtual Rotary
Invisible strings bind,
Their grasp is hard to find,
Their hold exceeds twine's kind.
Tug the virtual thread,
What follows then is dread,
All phantom ties are shed.
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Hermitage
Ignore the latest text,
Which leaves one so perplexed,
One's nap is rendered vexed.
Ignore the clock's own time,
A hermit's petty crime,
To fell time's grimy slime.
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Turf Accountant
Laws the dominant have meant
Permit rebellion by the inch
Those who cross that line are rent
In law's book, the final page
Reveals turf accountant's gauge
Ensures the house's advantage
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Hierarchy’s Truth
Faith buttresses the base,
Hypocrites claim that place,
Hubris wears traitor's puff.
One serves to stay alive,
Then schemes to best contrive,
Betray rule; traitors reign.
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Refined Reticence
Measured quiet routs the loud,
Well-bred pauses shame the crowd,
Tactful muteness stands unbowed.
Stillness, planted, breaks the spell,
Quiet, measured, prate's farewell,
Tactful hush shall quite compel.
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Detachment
To feign a lack of care,
Is half the journey there,
To that sedate release.
The crowd adores the keen,
Desires the calm serene,
Who slip from view refined.
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Majority Rule
The many's choice we swallow,
The outvoted must wallow,
For wrong, they cannot follow.
When all consent to treason,
The shared mistake unreason,
A democratic season.
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Polite Consensus
A nod, a smile, a bow
No one would disallow
They share the same tableau
One finds no quarrel here
No solitary fear
Consensus holds so dear
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Ceiling Inspection
Heavens' breadth proclaimed immense,
Upward look reveals pretence,
Painted dome with sparing stars.
Cosmic bluff maintains its guise,
Stands until a glance applies,
Then its shallow craft defies.
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Instinct’s Edge
The instinct acts with speed,
The bias pays no heed,
And leaves a muddy mess.
The instinct feels so right,
The bias claims its sight,
But bias merely errs.
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Ethical Wiretap
The eye’s a candid ear,
O’erhears what lips would fear,
And notes the guarded word.
The noise becomes a sight,
And silence, most polite,
Reveals its quiet grace.
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Stationary Progress
We claim we've gone so far,
But stand where first we are.
Our progress leaves a scar.
Oldest family shop
Of bias, passed with stock
Has never closed its lock.
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Good morning!
Horizon
No one falls off the sharp edge,
One is merely to the ledge
Brought again, a gentle pledge.
The real horizon's just there,
As Earth's eyebrow, raised in air,
The trapdoor's a gentle snare.
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Quiet Industry
The stock in trade of sunshine,
To vend calm that asks no prize,
And stills riot in the eyes.
The stock in trade of sunshine,
To lend promise day won't cease,
And grant the dusk long release.
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Common Sense
His practice, held most rare,
To weigh a word with care,
Presents a hazard there.
His doctrine, plainly plain,
Derived from what is plain,
Has naught of grand campaign.
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