Where Will They Go
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Photos of turkey, deer and coyote in our yard. The turkeys love bird food.
Where will they go, those creatures of the wild;
their territory lost through human cause.
Confused, they enter private yards; exiled,
they're waved or shushed away without a pause.
Wealth traded for the end of forest laws,
when once those animals with nature sought
their happiness in roaming land because
this was their home before destroyed and bought
for building mega-mansions with no afterthought.
Sandra M. Haight
~6th Place~
Contest: One Stanza - One Only
Sponsor: Broken Wings
Judged: 07/19/2016
Form: Spenserian Stanza:
Each stanza contains nine lines in total: eight lines in iambic
pentameter followed by a single line in iambic hexameter.
The rhyme scheme of these lines is "a b a b b c b c c.
Note: We built our home 50 years ago and there were many acres of forest
between our neighborhood of homes and the Hudson River, where all
wildlife lived peacefully. Over the last fifteen years, that wild forest property
was developed to build mega-mansions with river views. Now we have
deer, fox, coyote, wild turkey, raccoon, and many birds that were
displaced and have moved west into neighborhoods like ours to find
food, and my heart breaks for them because they are out of their
element. The pictures above are of some that visit our yard regularly.
Copyright © Sandra Haight | Year Posted 2016
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