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Another endangered species that deserves to be here. My dream is to reach all who read my endangered species series and make them think and FEEL.
The Leopard Goddess’ honey colored
eyes watch always ready and careful
Her life like any wild creature
relies on her abilities
She’s taught from birth by her
mother the ways of surviving
Her silky beautiful coat hides her
in the tall grasses and bush
Giving her opportunity
to snare a wild boar or impala
which she does with her own
type of grace
She’s stealth on paws
Power in every step or jump
The Leopard Goddess is complete
beauty beyond words or discription
Her every breath is one of survival
Her goal is to live and to pass on
her legacy to create another
Leopard Goddess to take her place
The one thing her mother can’t
prepare her for is mans guns
Like so many other
awesome creatures in Africa
She is hunted down and killed
for a trophy, one of 2000 this year
Her legacy taken from her
Her glory snuffed out for no reason
but mans own ignorance and greed
Her honey colored eyes
closed to us forever
But she won’t be the last
They will keep coming
Killing
Taking the beauty God has given
Her power and so many others
just gone, like it never was
Man will destroy them all
I looked into her honey colored
eyes for one last time and wept
For I knew that they would
still be open, hanging on
some mans wall lifeless.
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Monkey Danger
by Rhonda Marie Ledbetter Hayman
Sunday, November 19, 2006
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More Endangered Species…endangered jungles.
The big tree fell hard
It took down more trees with it
As the workers forge on
The forrest creatures are alive and
scrambeling in terror
Their homes are demolished
for nothing more than money
Chimpanzee families huddled together in fear
Babies holding tightly to their mommies
Chimps and their monkey cousins
Killed for meat and money
By the thousands they disappear
Africa’s forrests and wildlife
falling for never ending progress
Soon they will all be gone
The forrests & jungles dead
What will there be to show for it
Death will be all around us
There is no end to human greed
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Abiding Together
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by Rhonda Marie Ledbetter Hayman
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
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Today I use the wolf in my poem because it is an endangered species also. Especially in Wyoming, Idaho & Alaska. Their slaughter is never ending & sad. Who are we to say that they don’t have a right to live?!
This poem is about us all living
together..with respect for the other.
Cloud’s hide the sun this day
Sun rays shoot out anyway
All as the sun lowers to touch
the mountain tops
Such beauty causes her breath to stop
As she sits there on a pasture so
grassy green
He walks up completely unseen
His massive shadow envelopes her
His love and safety is here to conquer
His massiveness is not scary
She has no reason to be wary
As he sits beside her on the green
Stretching out legs so lean
She touches his hand and whispers of the beauty before them
Long grasses, high mountains with tall trees and beautiful flowers
with thorny stems
They sit together watching
the moon rise
As wolves begin their cries
They sit unafraid as the wolf begins
it nightly roam
It’s not them he’s after as long
as they give him some room
Beauty is all around
It speaks with & without a sound
Man and woman in the
mist of the wild
Creatures and wilderness they
must protect like a child
It is serene today
Let’s not let it be taken away
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