Random Steps of Elephants

I know not where a beetle goes,
to destinations random? 
A blind alight, or stranger yet
a path that is predestined? 

And armour-plated passes through 
the singing songbirds innards 
Triumphant on the other side of 
this warm dark world of gizzards

With eggs deposited within 
a most unlikely borrowed womb,  
finds shelters from the the famine 

It is a triumph seldom told 
or seldom quite imagined. 
That safe from harm 
and safe as ants 
from random steps of elephants, 
this tomb becomes a womb
Copyright © | Year Posted 2013

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Posey Avatar
July 7, 2013 at 6:35 PM
Great win SuZ, this bit of trivia would have been worth an evening of drinks in my wilder days. Now, it is a treasured verse from a dear friend.... Love ya...Jake
Gasun Avatar
July 7, 2013 at 10:39 AM
A marvelous write which I greatly enjoyed! Thank you so much for sharing my dear friend, Suz! My big hearty congratulations on your well-deserved great win! Hugs! love lots, Leonora
Ryerson Avatar
July 6, 2013 at 5:42 PM
Fascinating and VERY informative poem...I know a lot about insects because we used to collect them as youngsters but I have not heard of this beetle and the creative act it performs to reproduce. We mostly collected butterflies and moths but also beetles...the best one being the rare Unicorn beetle, the largest in North America I believe...I was amazed at the strength of this marvelous creature...Close it up in your fist and it could literally pry your fingers apart...Congrats - Tim
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July 6, 2013 at 2:07 PM
this is one cool poem, CONGRATS, love Skat
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July 6, 2013 at 9:00 AM
Congratulation on your win, my friend. Loved always, bl
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July 5, 2013 at 11:07 PM
Suz.... congratulations... from:Linda
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