Trophy Hunters eradicated lesser one-horned.
Traditional medicine was reasoned then killed.
The colonial era malignant apartheid seized.
Tragic wildlife ranches endangered.
Tremendous Javan Rhinos died.
Tied mud wallow was converted, the game started.
Trapped maggoting man heart wolfed.
Javan Rhinos are listed as, critically endangered
and live in Indonesia’s, Ujung Kulan National Park
they have a dusky grey colour, with a single horn mold
and a very lose skin fold, that looks like body armor
Humans are encroaching, into the Javan’s forest habitat
with poaching and deforestation, to greed development
and incoming natural disasters, will destroy their pastures
with a tsunami, volcano eruption, or just human overpopulation
There is also global warming, that creates sea level rising
that could wipeout their home, of their amazing habitat
and potential inbreeding, and wild cattle disease is climbing
while the human density syndrome, has turned us, into a rat
~12000 BC Sabre Tooth Tiger
~ 1650 BC Mammoth
1681 Dodo
~ 1890 Falkland Islands Wolf
1918 Carolina Parakeet
1938 Schomburgk's Deer
~ 1960 Javan Tiger
1973 Tecopa Pupfish
1975 Round Island Burrowing Boa
1979 Dutch Alcon Blue Butterfly
1994 Golden Toad
2000 Pyrenean Ibex
2002 Baiji White Dolphin
2004 Black-faced Honeycreeper
2006 West African Black Rhino
2015 Pinta Island Tortoise
20?? H0m0 Sapiens
Greeting Angels
Caylee, are you listening?
I just wanted you to know
that we prayed that you’d get justice
but I guess it won’t be so.
And I wondered if you met Tesslynn
when you reached that heavenly shore
and was little Lattie waiting?
Lord there are so many more.
Noah, John, Luke and Paul
and little sister Mary Yates,
Adam, Amy, Nixmary and Amber;
only God could know their fates.
JonBenet’ and Riley Ann,
way too soon these children died.
Polly, Kelsey and Jessica;
oh Lord the tears I’ve cried.
Samantha, Austin and Justin,
Terrance, Erica and Lily too,
Liam, Cyrus and Javan,
Michael and Alex to name a few.
Caylee were they waiting
with the angels by their side?
And did Jesus hold you close
when you realized that you had died?
So many innocent children
abused and beaten and all alone.
Lord why didn’t anyone stop them,
hadn’t anybody known?
Lord help us to help the children,
help us to hear their cries,
before one more child is tortured,
before one more angel dies…
Zebras are stripy I’m sure you can see,
Yaks chewing cud as slow as can be,
X-ray tetra in the aquarium are seen,
Warthogs with curly, white tusks that gleam,
Vertebrates aplenty, some invertebrates too,
Usually are seen at a visit to a zoo.
Tapirs with their long funny noses,
Slithering snakes in glass fronted enclosures,
Roaring tigers with camouflage stripe,
Quizzical otters eat eggs that they like,
Puma black prowls through the bush,
Orange orangutans needing a brush.
Never one to refuse a tasty dish
Macaroni penguins smell of fish,
Lions in the sunlight all day sleeping,
Komodo dragons quietly creeping,
Javan Rhinoceros with skin like armour,
Indian elephants size makes such drama,
Hippos with their mouths open wide,
Galapagos tortoise, oh what a prize!
Fennec fox with really long ears,
Endangered animals that people fear,
Dangerous animals taking a nap,
Caiman and crocodile waiting to snap,
Bold zoo keepers picking up poo,
All able to be seen at a trip to the zoo.
Panthira tigris,
gone extinct.
The way of the Caspian,
the Javan and the Bali.
Forgotten in history;
to be replaced
...by man's folly.
The majestic, muscular
orange facade.
Peppered with black
and spicy shag.
...And those legendary fangs,
which haunt our dreams.
Disappeared, never to be seen.
Tomorrow's youth will never know,
the beauty of these beasts.
Their spirit and their courage,
their mystique carried;
...in all our hearts.
The great cats, which we revere
will disappear.
Who's to blame? Where's the shame?
The disconnect between man and nature,
went too far. We need to remember who we are
...before we kill ourselves as well.
In memoriam: Tigers (the beginning of time-when man killed them.)
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