Basics

Don't shortchange our furry friends
Don't sluff-off those feathered ones
Have respect for gills    flippers
All are very smart

While we search out ways to kill
While we slander our neighbors
Find new ways to dominate
They think of basics

Yes    they only think of life -
How to stay alive each day
As said 'they think of basics'
Only kill for food

Search for food is exercise
Eat    sleep    and eliminate
These are the simple basics
How to stay alive

When man has devastated
Made a ruin of this earth
A few who follow basics
Will    somehow    survive

animalslifepeoplefree verse

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Connie Marcum Wong

Date: 4/16/2011 2:11:00 PM

Daver, what wise words! Congratulations on your poem being featured. Blessings, Connie

Carol Sunshine Brown

Date: 4/11/2011 12:25:00 PM

Congratulations on your well deserved poem being featured this week Daver. Love, Carol

Dr.Ram Mehta

Date: 4/11/2011 6:42:00 AM

Congratulations on your poem being featured this week, daver

Linda-Marie Sweetheart

Date: 4/11/2011 5:05:00 AM

Congrats Dave on your featured poem this week on P.S. .. a great piece to share with us all my friend with luv..

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 5/25/2010 7:00:00 AM

Yes, I can see man getting back to basics one day. Nice one for our furry friends, Daver! Have a wonderful day. LUv, andrea

Date: 1/18/2009 4:33:00 PM

Nice message in this poem. Yes, we need to take care of this world God has given us. Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us and for your kind words regarding my poem. Keep on writing! Karen

Deneen White

Date: 8/9/2008 8:40:00 PM

Hi Daver great write, and all too true, man has definitley ruined this earth and the Bible says that I shall put to ruin those ruining the earth, thanks for your comments on my poem, take care D-nyce

Heidie Buys

Date: 8/9/2008 2:59:00 PM

A timely warning and very wise words. Well done. Regards Heidie

James Foulk

Date: 8/9/2008 10:52:00 AM

if man could do things the way wild life does it, we would be better off. man is not the brightest creature, just because we can think and talk does not make us smart, look around and you will see. this was a great piece you wrote a very good message. thank you for reading my Breaking Hearts and for your comment

Kristin Reynolds

Date: 8/8/2008 11:15:00 AM

Amen! How did I miss this one??? We learned the hard way, after our home and all our possesions burned to the ground a few yrs back, posessions mean nothing, we stive for the less is more, motto - if I could I would live like a monk, with only simple necessities, as it should be. Love Kristin

Sharon Winter

Date: 8/6/2008 2:22:00 PM

I have thought of this very thing you write about many times. We will kill ourselves off, and those who strive for the 'Basics' will indeed survive, unless of course, we kill them too. Yikes, we better get it together. Love your writes. Love, Shar

Michael Jordan

Date: 8/6/2008 10:24:00 AM

The last two stanzas of this poem brought a sad but truthful end to this wonderful poem - God Bless