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
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
...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...
ReplyDeleteI love the Anaconda movies :-)
ReplyDeletegreen 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...
ReplyDeleteWould not want to mess with that, could easily eat the cat. LOL t brian's comment too.
ReplyDeleteGives me goosebumps wooot!
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I saw one of those yesterday at the zoo!
ReplyDeleteoh heck...she's a beauty but really wouldn't want to meet her out in the woods somewhere..
ReplyDeleteYikes! I don't know how envious I'd feel. Very cool. k.
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautyful creature, and she probably prefer other food to humans anyway...
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful snake, just amazing...what a wonder!
ReplyDeleteHa, Hank....leave it to you to have a unique perspective. Spare me the anaconda, but it does fit in with the green theme! Smiles.
ReplyDeleteSurely us humans would be the worst case of indigestion (okay maybe a cow or elephant, but still..)
ReplyDeleteyikes - the idea makes me a little green around the gills- good for St Patrick for driving them out! :) K
ReplyDeleteI wondered where you were going with that. Nice finish.
ReplyDeleteStuff of nightmares! Powerful, though. Well done.
ReplyDeleteBack again for Poetry Pantry! (And the day we celebrate the fact that snakes - like this? - were driven out of Irish land. )
ReplyDeleteEek! Despite my fear of snakes, I enjoyed your poem. :)
ReplyDeleteHappy 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.
ReplyDeleteHappy 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..
ReplyDeleteHappy St Patrick's day to u too hank..
ReplyDeletedon't know much about this day... all I know is that it's green all over :P
Emjoyy
Thank you, Saint Patrick. Though I do find snakes beautiful, so long as I am viewing them through glass!
ReplyDeleteAn unusual take on green - I love how you connected the snake with those being driven out of Ireland......
ReplyDeleteThis 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.
ReplyDeleteThe anaconda is indeed scary - and magnificent!
ReplyDeleteAs a Pagan, knowing that is what was really meant by driving the snakes out, I am not so keen on St Pat.
quite scary!an unusual take on the colour! :)
ReplyDeletepowerful write and image Hank!
ReplyDeleteOh, 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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