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The Oryx and the Lioness ........ (poem)
January 8th, 2002 | Sabertooth

Posted on 01/08/2002 9:58:23 AM PST by Sabertooth


War clouds loom on many horizons, and yet unlikely stories from far, untraveled paths are sometimes so powerful they turn our heads from the rumbles of tombs and rumors of bombs. So it is, in these past few days, that many eyes across the world have turned to Kenya, to witness the inconceivable friendship grown between a young lioness and an baby antelope.

In a time when man is killing man for thoughts, defense, and vengeance… where good and evil are contending on a vast scale, and though the outcome is certain, the struggle will be long and bloody… How is it that since about Christmastime, a fearsome predator, might hearken to an echo of mercy and take up with its prey?

Scientists will seek to explain it to us. They have much knowledge and may very well answer the question, "how?" There will surely be truth in what they tell.

And yet… and yet…

Why?




The Oryx and the Lioness

Young oryx and her lioness arose
And stretched. Our distant ken then dimly yawned:
Her orphan had no dam... Yet, love? God knows.
We smiled that cat and kid had purred and fawned.

She hearkened to the antelope as hers,
A roar of Judah's past and future fleece.
Deep in the darkest countenance, what stirs?
What breath behooves ferocious hearts to peace?

Their paths now crossed, her oryx at her side,
The lioness approached the pond to drink.
But nature's other hungers crouch and hide;
In underbrush, a fateful pride may slink..

By other jaws, her oryx lamb was met…
Isaiah's oracle is not quite yet.



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To: Sabertooth
Very nice!!! Thanks for the ping
41 posted on 01/09/2002 2:52:07 AM PST by Neets
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To: fish hawk
And what's a timid Oryx...but a meal.

Spill beans hawk...

When you posted, were you in coyote skins?


42 posted on 01/09/2002 3:27:06 AM PST by Sabertooth
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To: Sabertooth
Thanks for the ping, and the beautiful poem. BTTT
43 posted on 01/09/2002 3:36:45 AM PST by firewalk
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To: BeforeISleep
Hey, thanks.

BTW, Frost just kicks Whitmans can into the river, doesn't he?


44 posted on 01/09/2002 3:39:37 AM PST by Sabertooth
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To: Sabertooth
lol! I feel that way. I don't like Whitmans poetry very much.
45 posted on 01/09/2002 3:54:47 AM PST by firewalk
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To: BeforeISleep
I don't like Whitmans poetry very much.

It wasn't poetry...

It was prose of a marginal disregard.


46 posted on 01/09/2002 3:57:11 AM PST by Sabertooth
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To: Sabertooth
Maybe I enjoy poems by Robert Frost so much because I can understand them. I can see the pictures that go with the words, and feel what he's saying.
47 posted on 01/09/2002 4:38:12 AM PST by firewalk
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To: Sabertooth

Goosebumps!


48 posted on 01/09/2002 4:49:33 AM PST by Elsie
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To: Da_Shrimp
......while others saw it to another wonder of the world....
Not being Christian, I don't see anything religious in it, but it's certainly intriguing, if not unprecedented.
Hang with some of these folks, and perhaps they will tell you why THEY are.
49 posted on 01/09/2002 4:59:56 AM PST by Elsie
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To: Sabertooth
"By other jaws, her oryx lamb was met… Isaiah's oracle is not quite yet."

Though many will 'love' some will yet hate,
Tomorrow's 'Light' guarantees a better fate.

Thank you, Sabertooth.

50 posted on 01/09/2002 5:18:25 AM PST by d14truth
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To: Sabertooth; KLT
Thank you very much for this ping. Keep up the great work/BTTT
51 posted on 01/09/2002 6:24:38 AM PST by ChaseR
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To: Sabertooth
Thank you for the ping, Sabertooth. Your poetry *is* beautiful...thanks for sharing it with us. ;o)
52 posted on 01/09/2002 7:11:13 AM PST by homeschool mama
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To: Elsie
" I don't see anything religious in it, but it's certainly intriguing, if not unprecedented."

But certainly not so unexpected. Someone said this almost 3000 years ago:

Isa 65:25
"The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust (shall be) the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD."

53 posted on 01/09/2002 7:49:58 AM PST by editor-surveyor
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To: Sabertooth, ChaseR
Nice poem, Sabertooth!
Good to see you ChaseR!
54 posted on 01/09/2002 8:04:08 AM PST by Aquamarine
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To: Sabertooth
Coyote is "Saygap",the trickster. He just hangs around the edge waiting for opportunity.

The Sabertooth makes the kill, spilling words upon the ground. Saygap comes to gnaw the bones
Saygap says to the great Sabertooth , I can never kill like you, but I am honored to eat the scraps of your table.

Love your work. Always give me a PING. F.H.

55 posted on 01/09/2002 8:26:47 AM PST by fish hawk
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To: editor-surveyor
Isa 65:25
"The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust (shall be) the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD."

Kinda like this?
Genesis 3:14
14. So the LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, "Cursed are you above all the livestock and all the wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life.
56 posted on 01/09/2002 8:28:56 AM PST by Elsie
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To: rebel freeper;.30Carbine
Very interesting but not at all surprising.
57 posted on 01/09/2002 9:23:58 AM PST by TigersEye
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To: Sabertooth
Great poem !!
58 posted on 01/09/2002 9:38:08 AM PST by blackie
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To: Sabertooth
While the world was in a mess
There came the story of a lioness.
Unseemly behavior, out of sort,
A storm tossed ship, seeking a port?

Came a young oryx standing at her side
Perhaps a replacement for her pride?
It seems though now we'll never know
The young oryx will never grow.

A hungry lion, snuck in unawares,
Has ended the gawking, and the stares.
Till Christ comes, is the refrain
We will endure such bitter pain.

59 posted on 01/09/2002 9:48:40 AM PST by philman_36
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To: Sabertooth
BRAVO BUMP for your touching poem.

You are a talented poet;
And I didn't know it!

60 posted on 01/09/2002 11:53:39 AM PST by JulieRNR21
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