The Brown Grizzly Bear is so called,
not for its grizzled hair, grey-tipped
but because it is truly grisly, horrible!
(Ursus arctos horribilis)
This brown bear is gruesome and deplorable.
The amber Pizzly Bear is so called,
not for its swizzle stick.
but because it is a hybrid bear,
a Polar-Grizzly cross,
(Ursus maritimus × Ursus arctos)
The ash-grey Koala Bear is not a bear at all,
though it's nice and teddy-bear cuddly.
(Phascolarctos cinereus)
But the 'arktos' in its genus name, means 'bear'.
Its been wrongly named from the start,
the 'ashy-grey' pouched bear.
So there you have it!
Three bears, caught breaking and entering,
slagging off the language.
On the
top of our
world Ursus
maritimus prowls
hunting seals on the
ever shrinking Polar ice.
If this continues, to
continue, I fear
that soon the
species will
be gone.
Stay warm
ursus arctos
the huge brown teddy bear
hunt larger animals, like moose
... sleep well
04/02/2020
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If you should hear him coming, fear his roar
His grizzled warnings, you should not ignore
A formidable champion is Ursus, a carnivore
His claws protects those he loves with vigour
He confidently stands on two powerful legs
to liberate the world from its deviant dregs
Quite beastly is his gnarly savoir-faire attitude
when in combat with the insolent and the rude
He'd prefer to live in harmony with c'est la vie,
thinking, That's life and what will be will be
But he will fight when needed... c'est la guerre
Off to war with courage, strides the Great Bear
With one arm held in check, he'll not be denied
the voice to rebuke those who abuse and deride
If blinded in one eye, he would never hold back
To defend those in need he would bravely attack
AN ARCTIC DILEMMA
Ursus maritimus the arctic polar bear
Once abundant now disappearing
Worlds largest carnivore, but endearing.
Dependant on seals for sustenance
Both in peril lets not any more romance
Both vulnerable to total extinction
Sea ice habitat decreasing, not fiction.
Climate warming the main reason.
Hunting grounds for polar bears in season
Where once seals found momentary respite
Like disappearing quickly sadly overnight
Once both hunted for both for fur and food
Out on the sea ice when times were crude
Same story, both far and few between.
Both soon only seen in a pics and dreams.
A cool crisp spring evening,
as I follow the dog out
for her final ambulation.
Shades of the setting sun linger
on the western horizon,
with red Mars perched just above
and Ursus major arching overhead
but they only set the stage.
For comet Hale-Bopp is the feature,
white head and streaming tail
bright against the moonless sky.
I haul my wife and kids
from bedtime stories
to witness the splendor
as close to perfect as we can reach.
Later that night,
she comes to bed
warm from her bath
we kiss lightly, then deeply
suspended in sensation
as familiar rhythms resume.
Later, satiated, we linger
coupled to the moment
as close to perfect as we can reach.
1) Dave Rodgers, A Night Sky, March 27, 2013 (revised form earlier jottings)
2) For those who don't remember there is a stunning pic
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/Comet-Hale-Bopp-29-03-1997_hires_adj.jpg
Stay away from me you sick psychotic pathetic *itch...
She stood proud this still frame capturiing her twenty-first
Century design twin peaks their sisters wearing Metaphor's separtees ?
Fashion was her passion blonde as brunette yet, gazing at Pongidae's Primate
We knew, twas all but a toss from the wash ? Proboscidea, fanning their ears to drift
Amid Canis lupus arctos', chorus in howls majestic, of arctic woods ? Her thirsting tongue..
Desmodus rotundus chiroptera; Diaemus yougi nocturnal these words an obsession yes; carnivora.
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