Sans Animals

How pleasant would our weekend strolls
Be if there were no animals
To grace the places we may walk?
No herds nor prides, no packs no flocks.
To never see or hear a bird
To trek without would be absurd.
What good would be a tryst in spring
Without a redbreast there to sing?
Why should the oak we pass each day
Bear nutty acorn fruit today
If there were no squirrels nesting high
To gather cache and fall supplies.
What be the sense of things withal
Devoid of all the animals?
Copyright © | Year Posted 2010

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May 8, 2010 at 7:05 PM
so true, I feed the fish in our creek and thought of the poor animals in the gulf of mexico, dying, such a beautiful place that is being ruined with black death.
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