A Rabbit
By well-wisher
Mon, 04 Dec 2017
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A rabbit is forever ready to run;
its shoe like ears shovel up sounds from the air
and scan for the sound of a man with a gun
or the foxes and badgers and owls that it fears.
its shoe like ears shovel up sounds from the air
and scan for the sound of a man with a gun
or the foxes and badgers and owls that it fears.
With its nose ever nodding, it sniffs out a sign;
it can tell with a smell if you're friend or you're foe;
sniffs the earth and the air and from them it divines
if its safe or there's danger , it stays or it goes.
it can tell with a smell if you're friend or you're foe;
sniffs the earth and the air and from them it divines
if its safe or there's danger , it stays or it goes.
Or it stops what its doing and looks left and right;
it moves with a twitch like the tick of a clock.
Theres always some danger; something out of sight.
"Whats that over there? It might be a fox".
it moves with a twitch like the tick of a clock.
Theres always some danger; something out of sight.
"Whats that over there? It might be a fox".
And its body's hunched up like a cannonball is;
both its little back legs just like lightning, bound
so that at the first sign of a fox it can whizz
right back home to its burrow thats safe underground.
both its little back legs just like lightning, bound
so that at the first sign of a fox it can whizz
right back home to its burrow thats safe underground.
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Perpetually nervous creatures
Permalink Submitted by Parson Thru on
Perpetually nervous creatures. I wonder if we're going the same way.
Parson Thru
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Guns bring terror to all.
Guns bring terror to all.
I like rabbits they don't deserve to be shot.
Pops ~xx~
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