Life Vulture Poems

I’ve been harkening back to my formative years 
Haunting seedy seaport bars in Keelung,
Navigating strange interventions abroad,
While adjusting my ears to an alien tongue.

On the...

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At the Kruger National Park, an elephant carcass, predators dine at same time,
Lions and vultures devouring their foul find, a scorching sun, predator’s clime.




‘CLIME’ means...

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I can on you bestow a life-time happiness
By demolishing your physical funniness:
With water colors and a compliant paint brush
Making your avoiders at you rush:
Your bad-looking...

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Do we not all deserve the sanctity of a blessed and joyous life?
Instead we carry common wounds from the powerful racial knife-

Are we unworthy of...

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By the barrage of flies, bald John can tell how
Safe his meal is for feasting. The spotted
fawn yet battered breathes. 
Clean blood is poison, he...

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Egyptian Vulture meets a Lion
Like a king of all beasts looks that lion
Lion says fallow me
And I’ll set you free

But beware of the snake he...

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Antithesis of avian beauty
Monstrosity of the bird family
Head and neck very hideous looking 
In dull black wrinkled up unfeathered skin

Exposed decaying animal matter
Can produce unhealthy...

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THE VULTURE
Scavenging wretch!
With a long neck 
And a stinking breath
Feeding on carcasses of the dead
Bald headed crook with eyes that are red
Eating the putrefied worms...

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Turkey Vulture


Covered in road kill
Winners and losers in life
Confusion is real...

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Like a vulture eating an animal before completely dead
Is the person who picks a person's emotions, psychic til bled
A person filled with inner rage that...

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Soaring high that was a dot,
On the blue azure it was a moving spot,
My eyes were blinking in the sunshine,
as this dot-spot was caught,
I watched...

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