Life Death Adaptation Migrations Poem by Terence George Craddock (Spectral Images and Images Of Light)

lightening arcs ignites husk grasses
embalmed shades dehydration stalks
Serengeti electric awaits rebirth rains

plasma darts strung in cloud mass
fiery reds purples illuminate pulse
wind shifting ever changing skies

lightning bolts dance above cityscape
define rainstorms in waiting Serengeti
where lions elephants rains welcome

patterns of life death adaptation migration
greet climate flora fauna as free wildebeest
a million strong 200,000 zebra flow south

herd ant dots intermix with gazelle giraffe
free range over horizons in shift mind eye
backdrop species impala waterbuck baboon

interchange with warthog topi eland troops
of monkey 400 species of birds breeze by
concrete zoos lack inspiring palette textures

Serengeti dark runs in dice migration tides
endless plains bleed terrestrial mammal flux
tsetse fly populations plague blood feast

Serengeti diverse life masquerade mask wears
habitats survival teems through riverine forests
circles swamps kopjes woodlands grasslands


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