Short Lethally Poems

With Robert Frost I really 
do agree
that from a distance the woods 
are lovely.

But the leaves have murder secrets 
to keep;
that's why the forest  is so dark 
and deep.


The trees there quietly kill 
each other
in mute struggle to strangle, 
to smother

the weaker plantlife for that 
precious space
where the sun beams down 
its life-giving rays!...

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Up close, the dove is such a lovely sight,
her eyes down to her beak outlined 
by iridescent tinges of pale purple.

'Neath her wings, day-old chicks snuggle
like clumps of cottony clouds in summer
that has drifted too low in the nest.

Nearby, unseen, a snake coils motionless, 
fangs poised to strike. But caravans of ants
stream out of its rotting eye sockets!


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