The Froggy and the Snake
"One swallow does not a summer make."
-- a fabulist frank on nature's Reality
* * *
The garden snake possesses such a charm,
his tiny teeth all even, clean and white
sans any fang to do you minor harm
or do you in yet with a major bite;
and when a froggy greets him with "Hello!"
our snake here in the grass still smoothly smiles
while innocently hissing soft and low,
"Ssso nice to sssee you!" which he sweetly styles;
as slowly slithering he circles in
without a soupçon or a pinch of guile,
or any lick of malice in his grin,
though just behind the gleam lies oozing bile --
for Nature often dressed on stage a flower
a serpent cloaks to greenness full devour.
* * *
a dedication of Respect
for
the vast Pain continuous of countless
feeling beings in the wild
swallowed live
a revolving helios sonnet shakespearean satire menippean on
the popular, sentimental, romanticized notion of
"Mommy Nature"
february, 2023 -- the superficial beauty of nature
yet the pet of the poetaster
green
Copyright © James Starkey Iii | Year Posted 2023
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