The hunter becomes the hunted...
What if there was a role reversal?
Let's all just get along ~
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
hawk sits at distance
watching me mow by old barn
waiting for a mouse
The past cannot quench His Power
The future cannot quench His Power
The present cannot quench His Power
Nothing can hold back the Power of Jesus
As a baby He was hunted
His birth was plaque with problems
But His purpose was Eternal
No problem could stop the life of Christ—Not even death
As a child Jesus was feared by His enemies
Before He even spoke full sentences; He is feared
Before He even ministers; He is hunted
But Glory to God the Father who protected Him and
So we know that nothing can quench His Power
The birth of Jesus reveals the mind of God
The Father will protect His Son
The angels will play a role and
The soul of man can be saved
The past cannot quench His Power
The future cannot quench His Power
The present cannot quench His Power
Nothing can hold back the Power of Jesus
The Father will protect His Son
The deer stands in peace
The hunter approaches soft
Death opens its wings
When men hunted as a group
facing danger as a troop
heartbeat pounding on a loop
probably with pee and poop
silently they’d gravitate
encircle as they separate
yet as one coordinate
attacking to eliminate
get it wrong it could be fatal
survive it and be very grateful
facing death becoming faithful
gamble when the risk is fateful
and when you are that courageous
experiencing that what is dangerous
part of a team requires trust
surviving what could see you crushed
you can laugh and you can banter
because the danger doesn’t factor
what isn’t fatal doesn’t matter
so men make jokes and women chatter
as women looked after the young
the sleeping baby to noisy ones
mums sharing with other mums
learning what others have done
that means talking back and forth
to offer help and give support
while men hunting’s a silent sport
so women talk while men fall short
relying more on what they’ve heard
a sensitivity has occurred
while men make jokes poke fun and stir
in ways that women find absurd
Jared Kushner needed some cash
And TWO BILLION is quite a stash
One must make amends
For cash among friends
But Trump's word was there in a flash!*
*Trump re-directed media attention
from Kushner's suspect "Affinity Partners"
to Hunter Biden's laptop.
venus fly trap smiles
beauteous trichomes seduce
hapless spider prey
03-March-2022
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The hunted hunter
Change your ways oh man
Be in peace with your soul
Why do you keep hunting
For what you cant replace
How many of us must die
Just for you to be richer
Must our blood and pains
Be an elevator to a greedy ambitions
The time is ticking
The table is turning
Oh Stop it now
before it turns to you
For sure then you will be
The hunted hunter
The hunted hunter
You keep hunting for money
How much money more
Do you need to be satisfied
How much more greed
Is worth our lost love ones
You keep destroying our life's
And expect our royalty
Change your ways oh man
Cos if not i tell you
Sooner or later you will be
The hunted hunter
Dedicated to all corrupt
African officials in my country
Upon a Time ago, I hunted Love,
And thought, if I could catch it, it would stay.
But fear's hard by upon the catching of –
Love's happiness the debt you have to pay.
And then I thought that flying on wax wings
Was how I might match flight with joking Love
A heart that’s happy ever and always sings
Will raise the flyer to the Sun above
But then, my Courage melted, and I saw
That in Love’s absence, my looks had grown old,
I had no crown, no diamond without flaw
But still, my Heart burned—flawless molten gold
Flowed down from Heav’n and warmed me to the core
And so, Love came, and I chased, never more.
Have Hunted and Confronted
For many things we have hunted,
Then perplexed person confronted,
Face to face;
Place to place,
Who gave us all which we wanted.
Jim Horn
Leopard sneaks up close...
An unsuspecting gazelle
Pounce! Dinner's ready...
Date written and posted: 01/06/2019
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judas leaves
evidence your course
through these woods
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05/02/2018
Did you find the exact life you wished for,
do you have the money you craved
Did you find they were not the same at all
once that final purchase was made
Are you feeling nothing but emptiness
sitting here disillusioned and alone
Have the mirrors all been taken down
—stark reminders of the falsehood you’ve known
(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2016)
The Hunted Fox by Denis Briggs
Why do they chase me?
What have I done?
I hear their hounds baying
I know I must run
Their horse’s hooves thunder
Their wild cries I hear
I'm frightened they'll catch me
And they'll smell my fear
If they do catch me
They'll tear me apart
And their children they'll smear
With the blood from my heart
What did I do?
To warrant this hate
But feed my children
And protect my mate?
They've killed my father
My brother my friend
Now they will chase me
Till my life they end
We don’t kill their children
We never chase them
So why is it us
That they chose to condemn?
So now I must run
And let them give chase
Though stones rip my feet
And thorns tear my face
If I survive
I hope in the end
One day I shall find
Just one human friend
Playing Hallow tricks
claws from nowhere pierced me---
thirst for flesh unquenched
Halloween Senryu
18 Oct 17
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