serpents, scorpions and owls

slithering, creeping, shuttering terror serpent grovels along the dust of earth forked tongue hisses, taunting and twisting is there smoke as nostrils flare? is he something to beware? followed by scorpion, sharp edged spite stinger rises, poisonous venom hot! daring a challenge, zig zag striking! watch your feet is this the devil’s plot? owl in the sky stretches its wings caresses air above the cursed ground screeching, taunting, threatening for it wells knows one snap of its powerful beak its death gripping talons will extinguish both serpent and scorpion below.