Crocodile Wu Wei [Lyric Poem]

Sunning on the shore,
As in days of yore
When the ancient beast
Stood its ground to feast,
Waiting for one to crawl
Near its gaping maw...
Then, SNAP!
CRUNCH! - Crunch - crunch...

DAILY PHOTO: Sunning Croc

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Snake [Lyric Poem]

I saw a snake had made a gnarly bed --
On logs and stones, its length did curl and thread.
Ah, to be comfy on bark's ragged bumps...
I wake up when PJ's wad to a lump.

Lizard [Lyric Poem]

Ah! What a life, to be a lizard:
Unacquainted with ice or blizzard,
Knowing only warmth and beaches...
All but for sand in one's nether reaches.

Reptilian Investigations [Haiku]

rock agama pops
over the boulder's top:
sniffs & scurries.

Frogs Heard, Not Seen [Haiku]

grass-rattle, plop!
grass-rattle, plop! -- repeats...
 at last, I see a frog.

DAILY PHOTO: Mugger Crocodiles of Ranganathittu Bird Sanctuary

Look Carefully!

Out of the Box Crocs [Lyric Poem]

To find oneself within a crate -
 packed inside and labeled "Freight"
  seems like the worst that things can get,
   but then I peered out through the slit,
 and what a thing it was to see
  a croc's keen eye stare back at me.
 
It had so many freakin' teeth,
 both on the top and underneath!

I concluded the box 'tweren't so bad.
 To stay a while, I would be glad!

Garden Lizard [Tanka]

a garden lizard
 can't resolve whether to
  scurry, or to 
 be master of all 
 that it surveys?

Turtle Time [Haiku]

the turtle 
 moves slowly; i wonder
  if it sees slowly?