The Oryx and the Lioness ........ (poem)

January 8th, 2002 | Sabertooth

[Neets]

Very nice!!! Thanks for the ping

[Sabertooth]

And what's a timid Oryx...but a meal.

Spill beans hawk...

When you posted, were you in coyote skins?

[firewalk]

Thanks for the ping, and the beautiful poem. BTTT

[Sabertooth]

Hey, thanks.

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

[firewalk]

lol! I feel that way. I don't like Whitmans poetry very much.

[Sabertooth]

I don't like Whitmans poetry very much.

It wasn't poetry...

It was prose of a marginal disregard.

[firewalk]

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.

[Elsie]

Goosebumps!

[Elsie]

......while others saw it to another wonder of the world....

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Not being Christian, I don't see anything religious in it, but it's certainly intriguing, if not unprecedented.

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Hang with some of these folks, and perhaps they will tell you why THEY are.

[d14truth]

"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.

[ChaseR]

Thank you very much for this ping. Keep up the great work/BTTT

[homeschool mama]

Thank you for the ping, Sabertooth. Your poetry *is* beautiful...thanks for sharing it with us. ;o)

[editor-surveyor]

" 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."

[Aquamarine]

Nice poem, Sabertooth!
Good to see you ChaseR!

[fish hawk]

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.

[Elsie]

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."

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Kinda like this?

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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.

[TigersEye]

Very interesting but not at all surprising.

[blackie]

Great poem !!

[philman_36]

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.

[JulieRNR21]

BRAVO BUMP for your touching poem.

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