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"Galapagos" - a new poem by rags!
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RAG Seely
Oct 5, 2012, 2:41:29 PM10/5/12
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"Galapagos"
by R.A.G. Seely
Galapagos Archip'lago
Strange cyclopean scene
Craters spew jets of gray smoke
Great black lizards lumb'ring
A rough-hewn and horrid aspect
Permeates the islands
Fields of basalt, fissured, cracked
Volcanic origins
Paradise for ab'rant reptiles
Lava, porous and dark
The bay swarms with animals:
Turtles, fishes, and sharks
Terrestrial mammals are scant
Curious are the birds:
Mockingbirds quite discrepant
Finches most singular
We shamble through the sun-burnt brush
Through wretched weeds we wade
Acacias and odd cactus
Solit'ry source of shade
A ship's captain, killed by his crew
His skull rests in the grass
Further signs of man are few
The sky's serene, cloudless
What monster could have made these tracks
Winding towards the springs?
Tortoises, their necks outstretched
Ancient and towering
Finches flitter, basilisks bask
Terrapins imbibing
I'm animated to ask
What forces formed these beings
-=RAGS=-
by R.A.G. Seely
Galapagos Archip'lago
Strange cyclopean scene
Craters spew jets of gray smoke
Great black lizards lumb'ring
A rough-hewn and horrid aspect
Permeates the islands
Fields of basalt, fissured, cracked
Volcanic origins
Paradise for ab'rant reptiles
Lava, porous and dark
The bay swarms with animals:
Turtles, fishes, and sharks
Terrestrial mammals are scant
Curious are the birds:
Mockingbirds quite discrepant
Finches most singular
We shamble through the sun-burnt brush
Through wretched weeds we wade
Acacias and odd cactus
Solit'ry source of shade
A ship's captain, killed by his crew
His skull rests in the grass
Further signs of man are few
The sky's serene, cloudless
What monster could have made these tracks
Winding towards the springs?
Tortoises, their necks outstretched
Ancient and towering
Finches flitter, basilisks bask
Terrapins imbibing
I'm animated to ask
What forces formed these beings
-=RAGS=-
M Gibbons
Oct 10, 2012, 12:17:09 PM10/10/12
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I will try to get a copy of Grapefruit you someday.
faze...@gmail.com
Mar 25, 2020, 3:21:23 PM3/25/20
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Can you please do a poem about a bird in the Galapagos islands without giving it away
RAG Seely
Mar 27, 2020, 8:13:49 AM3/27/20
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On Wednesday, March 25, 2020 at 3:21:23 PM UTC-4, faze...@gmail.com wrote:
> Can you please do a poem about a bird in the Galapagos islands without giving it away
Maybe. Can you guess what my recent effort, "Invasive Species," is about? Email your answer to me.
> Can you please do a poem about a bird in the Galapagos islands without giving it away
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