Saturday, March 16, 2013

Anaconda


                                                               Author: Image Attributed to LA Dawson
Image: A Green Anaconda
Source: Licensed through Wikimedia Commons (here)

Green with envy seeing
one so big. It is one of
the longest big snakes

Olive green with black
blotches along its body
Reason it is ‘green’

Frightening to hear
Can swallow humans whole just
not for the squeamish

‘Anaconda’ with
its three sequels created
that horror feeling

March seventeenth, a
remembrance to snakes driven
out of Irish lands

Happy St Patrick's Day!


Written for K's hosting at d'Verse with all things green and shared
with Poets United's Poetry Pantry # 142

27 comments:

  1. ...a true frightening image of a living creature Hank... how it can devour & swallow a whole man or cow is indeed too scary to witness... i've watched many hollywood films about anacondas and i was amazed how they grow that long & huge... i would def not dare go & see one live in SA or any place where they live... smiles...

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  2. green with envy seeing one so big...hahaha...now there is the man in you hank...lol...they are huge snakes...and could not imagine running into one for real...their hugs would not be fun at all...smiles...

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  3. Would not want to mess with that, could easily eat the cat. LOL t brian's comment too.

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  4. Gives me goosebumps wooot!

    http://www.travelwithchamz.com/

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  5. I saw one of those yesterday at the zoo!

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  6. oh heck...she's a beauty but really wouldn't want to meet her out in the woods somewhere..

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  7. Yikes! I don't know how envious I'd feel. Very cool. k.

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  8. What a beautyful creature, and she probably prefer other food to humans anyway...

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  9. What a beautiful snake, just amazing...what a wonder!

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  10. Ha, Hank....leave it to you to have a unique perspective. Spare me the anaconda, but it does fit in with the green theme! Smiles.

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  11. Surely us humans would be the worst case of indigestion (okay maybe a cow or elephant, but still..)

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  12. yikes - the idea makes me a little green around the gills- good for St Patrick for driving them out! :) K

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  13. I wondered where you were going with that. Nice finish.

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  14. Stuff of nightmares! Powerful, though. Well done.

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  15. Back again for Poetry Pantry! (And the day we celebrate the fact that snakes - like this? - were driven out of Irish land. )

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  16. Eek! Despite my fear of snakes, I enjoyed your poem. :)

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  17. Happy St. Patrick's day to you. I hadn't thought about the types of snakes St. Patrick may have driven out of Ireland. These snakes are very scary.

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  18. Happy St Patrick's day..well, that snake is green while they hold a mysterious quality they scare me to tell you the truth..but, I enjoyed the read..

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  19. Happy St Patrick's day to u too hank..
    don't know much about this day... all I know is that it's green all over :P

    Emjoyy



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  20. Thank you, Saint Patrick. Though I do find snakes beautiful, so long as I am viewing them through glass!

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  21. An unusual take on green - I love how you connected the snake with those being driven out of Ireland......

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  22. This is so true! My hesitation about this saint is about the Christian victory over the pagans! And though I am Christian, the roots are deeper yet.

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  23. The anaconda is indeed scary - and magnificent!

    As a Pagan, knowing that is what was really meant by driving the snakes out, I am not so keen on St Pat.

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  24. quite scary!an unusual take on the colour! :)

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  25. powerful write and image Hank!

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  26. Oh, Hank! I lost two sweet dogs to snake bits in the last couple of years. I still live in the desert, beside a wilderness preserve, but feel a fear I did not used to experience.

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