If I Was An Animal What Would I Be

If I were an animal the great panther I would be,
Sleek and lean and shiny up there in my tree.
My claws of steel that strike with speed,
Only for food I preciously need.

The jungle my home my heritage here,
Passed down for my cubs that I hold dear.
The grass so long from predictors I hide, 
For here is where I go to survive. 

Once so many we roamed the beautiful land, 
But man are destroying us with there wicked hand.
Guns in one and dozers in the other, 
Soon I won’t have a sister or brother.

The panther the physic the seeing the knowing,
No longer is my kind growing and flowing.
Let there be peace to all on the land,
And let man give us a loving hand.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2011

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Hunt Avatar
May 19, 2011 at 8:06 PM
Very good job with this one as well. You do a remarkable job. R.M.
Mehta Avatar
May 13, 2011 at 2:20 PM
Nice choice , and good luck with this lovely poem, gail
Johnson Avatar
May 13, 2011 at 3:37 AM
Great Poem mate where are you here in Brisbane i am blue best of luck in the contest mate give em verse at any rate Don
Smith Avatar
May 14, 2011 at 10:35 PM
Thankyou Don, I enjoy writing poems, never done it before.
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