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Day In the Jungle

toucans and hornbills stifling humidity welcome to jungle orange orangutan wisely avoids bees ballroom where bees congregate wild boar’s carcass rotting from limb of a tree warns us of leopard a decorative fairy queen clarifies jungle beauty red jungle fowl laughs vines shrubs and grasses do not slow down the monkeys i look up and smile

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Date: 9/8/2020 1:54:00 PM
Why do I not feel welcome when I read about this jungle?! lol. Guess I'm just too citified, eh?! ~ Urbana and Ulcers, Gershon
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 9/9/2020 5:03:00 AM
I am staying away also. Believe me!
Date: 9/8/2020 12:08:00 PM
- I both see and hear the animals in the jungle beauty, Caren :) - Thanks for the free ticket :) - Lovely haiku :) - hugs // Anne-Lise :)
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 9/9/2020 5:04:00 AM
You are ever so welcome Anne-Lise.

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