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Truncated Sonnet: ''The Good Earth''

The fierce, supple tiger
     (an untamed, deadly beast)
is not meant as dinner,
     for someone's sportive feast.
The giant, harmless whale
     (a great, ocean mammal)
won't survive or prevail
     against reaving people.
All Earth's feral creatures,
     of land, sky, and the sea,
are here as our teachers
     and life's diversity.
Redeem man's threatened worth;
and preserve the good Earth!
Copyright © | Year Posted 2013

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