Miscellaneous Poems - vol 3
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Comment from Brett Matthew West
Here's the proper solution to this ridiculous story. Put Walt out there, and allow the lions to hunt his ignorant behind. Well written poem that says what many people feel about this whole matter.
reply by the author on 03-Aug-2015
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Here's the proper solution to this ridiculous story. Put Walt out there, and allow the lions to hunt his ignorant behind. Well written poem that says what many people feel about this whole matter.
Comment Written 02-Aug-2015
reply by the author on 03-Aug-2015
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Thank you for your kind comments, much appreciated. I totally agree on your alternative solution.
Comment from sweetwoodjax
this is an excellent write, cd Richards, you did an excellent job writing this limerick about Cecil the Lion. I feel for the animal, I really do, but what aggravates me is this has taken on an ugly turn and people are more concerned with the lion's death than the murder of some people.
reply by the author on 02-Aug-2015
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this is an excellent write, cd Richards, you did an excellent job writing this limerick about Cecil the Lion. I feel for the animal, I really do, but what aggravates me is this has taken on an ugly turn and people are more concerned with the lion's death than the murder of some people.
Comment Written 02-Aug-2015
reply by the author on 02-Aug-2015
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Thanks for your positive review, sweetwoodjax, it's very much appreciated. I'm not sure how Cecil's case would have stopped anyone being concerned about the murder of people. Surely they can be concerned about both? Thousands of animals are murdered every single year in Africa to fulfill some peoples' sick need to kill for the "fun" of it. I for one am glad for the massive backlash this particular incident has caused.
Comment from strandregs
I think it is poignant .
who are you to judge your work :-))
Beautifully sardonic and on the dick head.
im sure the daily mail would publish it
if they had the bronze... Z. :-))
reply by the author on 01-Aug-2015
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I think it is poignant .
who are you to judge your work :-))
Beautifully sardonic and on the dick head.
im sure the daily mail would publish it
if they had the bronze... Z. :-))
Comment Written 01-Aug-2015
reply by the author on 01-Aug-2015
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Thanks for the great review, strandregs. I see there's quite a number of postings on this subject - the more the better! All the best, Craig.
Comment from Taffspride
A limerick that I really wish would go viral. You are spot on with your observation.
We all know who 'the beast' was, and it certainly was not the King Of The Jungle.
A s brave hunter? Ha! no just some stupid man on some quest to prove he was a man. Ha!!! I believe there are a great many who would like to prove to him what he is.
Killing of defenseless animals for nothing more than a trophy, wrong. I am longing to go on my first safari. I will be shooting the wild animals, with my camera. My trophy's will be the framed pictures on my walls, or streaming on my lap-top.
Thank you for sharing your great limerick.
Iechyd da
Ann
reply by the author on 01-Aug-2015
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A limerick that I really wish would go viral. You are spot on with your observation.
We all know who 'the beast' was, and it certainly was not the King Of The Jungle.
A s brave hunter? Ha! no just some stupid man on some quest to prove he was a man. Ha!!! I believe there are a great many who would like to prove to him what he is.
Killing of defenseless animals for nothing more than a trophy, wrong. I am longing to go on my first safari. I will be shooting the wild animals, with my camera. My trophy's will be the framed pictures on my walls, or streaming on my lap-top.
Thank you for sharing your great limerick.
Iechyd da
Ann
Comment Written 01-Aug-2015
reply by the author on 01-Aug-2015
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Thank you, Ann, for your lovely review. I'll happily join you on that trip :)
All the best,
Craig.
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You would be welcome. My daughter did it last year and has some wonderful memories and trophy pictures.
:)
Comment from Gypsy Blue Rose
Hello CD Richards,
I like your poem in limerick style. ~About a Beast~ is about Cecil the lion that was murdered by a stupid dentist that wanted the lion's head on his wall, such a horrible crime. I understand what you mean.
reply by the author on 31-Jul-2015
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Hello CD Richards,
I like your poem in limerick style. ~About a Beast~ is about Cecil the lion that was murdered by a stupid dentist that wanted the lion's head on his wall, such a horrible crime. I understand what you mean.
Comment Written 31-Jul-2015
reply by the author on 31-Jul-2015
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Thanks for your kind comments, Gypsy. Craig.
Comment from TAB_that's me
Good limerick. Love the dick line. maybe someone should hunt him and caught off his trophy - guess there wouldn't be much to show though.
teresa
reply by the author on 31-Jul-2015
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Good limerick. Love the dick line. maybe someone should hunt him and caught off his trophy - guess there wouldn't be much to show though.
teresa
Comment Written 31-Jul-2015
reply by the author on 31-Jul-2015
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No, Teresa, I don't think it would require much of a plaque to hold that one. Cheers, Craig.
Comment from --Turtle.
Hi Craig,
I read through your Limerick. I don't think a limerick has to be clever or deep or poignant to be effective, though I'm not sure yours isn't. I think the Limerick form has a good foundation for a more cruder expression of a true-felt emotion or thought, opinions be damned ... be it a humorous one, or an angry one, or a naughty one ... or just touching the worst of humanity with the cut of disgust.
I read this poem and a lot of different thoughts came to me, many based in anger, in unfairness, in recognizing the perceived: 'the world is fodder for what is my pleasure, my due ... and that makes me feel manly'. There are levels of cocktardidness that knock me down to wishing I just didn't know it happened, and it happens a lot, constantly. And for why? It's boils down to something lacking. Some complex of shriveled, something that leads to shameful overcompensation, and for why?
I think the focused quip on the size of this human male's junk, in regard to some perceived prowess at killing something regarded for its strengths and the beauty in its strength... it fit very well. "I am a man's man, I just shot the 'insert living creature here that was better left to its world doing more for the natural order than the man taking and taking and taking'"
There is a slew of emotions/ images that come to mind when thinking about finding pride and attributing pride to an appendage that is the poster-child of selfish gratification, overglorified.
It is disheartening what the human drive of 'because I can' leads to, over and again. The title was effective too, as there was no doubt for me once read who was the beast.
reply by the author on 31-Jul-2015
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Hi Craig,
I read through your Limerick. I don't think a limerick has to be clever or deep or poignant to be effective, though I'm not sure yours isn't. I think the Limerick form has a good foundation for a more cruder expression of a true-felt emotion or thought, opinions be damned ... be it a humorous one, or an angry one, or a naughty one ... or just touching the worst of humanity with the cut of disgust.
I read this poem and a lot of different thoughts came to me, many based in anger, in unfairness, in recognizing the perceived: 'the world is fodder for what is my pleasure, my due ... and that makes me feel manly'. There are levels of cocktardidness that knock me down to wishing I just didn't know it happened, and it happens a lot, constantly. And for why? It's boils down to something lacking. Some complex of shriveled, something that leads to shameful overcompensation, and for why?
I think the focused quip on the size of this human male's junk, in regard to some perceived prowess at killing something regarded for its strengths and the beauty in its strength... it fit very well. "I am a man's man, I just shot the 'insert living creature here that was better left to its world doing more for the natural order than the man taking and taking and taking'"
There is a slew of emotions/ images that come to mind when thinking about finding pride and attributing pride to an appendage that is the poster-child of selfish gratification, overglorified.
It is disheartening what the human drive of 'because I can' leads to, over and again. The title was effective too, as there was no doubt for me once read who was the beast.
Comment Written 31-Jul-2015
reply by the author on 31-Jul-2015
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Thanks so much Turtle, for "getting it". All of the things you just said have gone through my head over this, and more. Apart from anything else I'm just baffled at how this guy, and others like him get their rocks off in a "battle" they can't lose. Tossers.
Comment from Jannypan (Jan)
Your poem hits the mark. It speaks volumes about the senseless killing of the magnificent animals.
That arrogant, heartless dentist should be extradited to Africa. If he gets lost in the paperwork, jail, or ????, I doubt anyone would care.
This has NOTHING to do with hunters, NRA, or ?? so those who feel it does take that argument elsewhere.
RIP CECIL. You're the guardian of the animals at the Rainbow Bridge. (google Rainbow Bridge).
Well done.
reply by the author on 31-Jul-2015
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Your poem hits the mark. It speaks volumes about the senseless killing of the magnificent animals.
That arrogant, heartless dentist should be extradited to Africa. If he gets lost in the paperwork, jail, or ????, I doubt anyone would care.
This has NOTHING to do with hunters, NRA, or ?? so those who feel it does take that argument elsewhere.
RIP CECIL. You're the guardian of the animals at the Rainbow Bridge. (google Rainbow Bridge).
Well done.
Comment Written 31-Jul-2015
reply by the author on 31-Jul-2015
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Thank you jannypan. I for one won't be shedding a tear regardless of what happens to him. He boasts on his hunting site of murdering over 40 big "game" animals, including a black bear, a leopard and at least one other lion. I don't believe in hell, but someone needs to invent it, just for the likes of him. Nice reference to the Rainbow Bridge. Cheers, Craig.
Comment from Senyai
Hi, Craig. Nice to meet you even if you are angry at the moment. But I am too. The dentist, Walter Palmer, is unfortunately from my USA, Minnesota in fact. He claims he relied on the Zimbabwe tour game guides and he was unaware of the importance of Cecil or that he was a protected lion. I find his past mistakes of killing a black bear in much the same circumstances a bit suspicious. He received probation for this a number of years ago. The man is hiding because of the death threats he had received. Everything is so outrageous with this whole scenario being played out in the media. I love animals and fell in love with the magnificent Cecil with the black mane, father of a new set of cubs. Angry about the manner in which these kills are made, is not sport in any way. Tying a dead animal on the truck and luring out a lion, then shooting it. That is despicable. But I might add, we are having a rather grisly batch of video tapes leaked to the press here in the USA, showing Planned Parenthood employees and doctors, harvesting fetal body parts from aborted babies to sell on the market to such companies are Stem Express. This is despicable too. Planned Parenthood is run under the guise of providing birth control to wed and unwed mothers. But it is the provider of more abortions than any other organization in the world. Now it is profiting from selling the body parts of aborted fetuses. This is illegal. But Planned Parenthood is denying this and says it is supplying the parts for science for stem cells research. For a profit. But there is no outcry about this issue. There is a bill in the senate coming up soon to de-fund Planned Parenthood of any federal monies. But there is no outcry. But the Internet is lit up about the magnificent Cecil and his death, (and rightly so), but not about these innocent babies being slaughtered for parts. They have no faces to see. There is no outrage in the masses, only a few voices have risen up on this. Is this a mad world or what?
Sorry but your excellent limerick got me going on Cecil and the deaths of so many unborn.
Take care,
Senyai
reply by the author on 31-Jul-2015
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Hi, Craig. Nice to meet you even if you are angry at the moment. But I am too. The dentist, Walter Palmer, is unfortunately from my USA, Minnesota in fact. He claims he relied on the Zimbabwe tour game guides and he was unaware of the importance of Cecil or that he was a protected lion. I find his past mistakes of killing a black bear in much the same circumstances a bit suspicious. He received probation for this a number of years ago. The man is hiding because of the death threats he had received. Everything is so outrageous with this whole scenario being played out in the media. I love animals and fell in love with the magnificent Cecil with the black mane, father of a new set of cubs. Angry about the manner in which these kills are made, is not sport in any way. Tying a dead animal on the truck and luring out a lion, then shooting it. That is despicable. But I might add, we are having a rather grisly batch of video tapes leaked to the press here in the USA, showing Planned Parenthood employees and doctors, harvesting fetal body parts from aborted babies to sell on the market to such companies are Stem Express. This is despicable too. Planned Parenthood is run under the guise of providing birth control to wed and unwed mothers. But it is the provider of more abortions than any other organization in the world. Now it is profiting from selling the body parts of aborted fetuses. This is illegal. But Planned Parenthood is denying this and says it is supplying the parts for science for stem cells research. For a profit. But there is no outcry about this issue. There is a bill in the senate coming up soon to de-fund Planned Parenthood of any federal monies. But there is no outcry. But the Internet is lit up about the magnificent Cecil and his death, (and rightly so), but not about these innocent babies being slaughtered for parts. They have no faces to see. There is no outrage in the masses, only a few voices have risen up on this. Is this a mad world or what?
Sorry but your excellent limerick got me going on Cecil and the deaths of so many unborn.
Take care,
Senyai
Comment Written 31-Jul-2015
reply by the author on 31-Jul-2015
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Hi Senyai, nice to meet you too. This miserable excuse for a human being obviously has no clue. Whether Cecil was important to thousands of humans or none; whether he was part of a research program or not is totally irrelevant; Palmer's "apology" is meaningless. Cecil was not here to give some pathetic dentist with manhood issues a hard-on by taking his life. Nor were the thousands upon thousands of other big game animals killed in Africa every year by humans with less intelligence than a flea. Cheers, Craig :)
Comment from Dean Kuch
What that individual did to such a noble creature is deplorable, Craig. I don't blame you one bit for being angry, and you've only reiterated what so many are already thinking. Only you had the balls to actually voice your anger.
Nice one! ~Dean ;}
reply by the author on 31-Jul-2015
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What that individual did to such a noble creature is deplorable, Craig. I don't blame you one bit for being angry, and you've only reiterated what so many are already thinking. Only you had the balls to actually voice your anger.
Nice one! ~Dean ;}
Comment Written 31-Jul-2015
reply by the author on 31-Jul-2015
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Cheers, Dean. Much appreciate the comments, friend. Craig.
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My pleasure, Craig.