In the Jungle

Copyright: 2/14/96
In the Jungle

In the heat
Birds’ call
Struggling vines retract
And monkeys fall.

Hot and humid
Amongst animals
The tiger is swift
Toward a wild foe.

Snakes and alligators
Rove with respect
Rain falls silently
Droplets erect.

Beautiful blooming flowers
Darken the sky
Small animals feed
Nothing to say.

Tigers ignore
Prey at times
Trees weep and sway
Fleeting the rhyme.

In the jungle
Different species
Operate the earth
How it should be.

Animals we've never seen
Hide and run
They're strange
Lapsed the sun.

Sounds unusual
Rent the air
We are fools
Animals play our dare.

Season's crest not
Stay's the same
No cold or snow
Relieve the game.

In this African retreat
No one speaks
In this enormous jungle
Moments are not dull.