Image: Two gold dust day geckos
fighting on a banana trunk (here)
Sunday Whirl 10 of 12 given words:
fix fight hit risk action state
heavy hours end team
Selfishly they would fix their territorial rights
Triumphant young one would seek to replace
No negotiations but pitting strength with a fight
They decided the extent of influence of space
Law of the jungle had been fair and universal
Dominant male would hit hard at pretenders
Who risk being ostracized as a direct reprisal
For any actions or attempts to topple the elders
This state of affairs were dealt with precision
The vanquished would often pay a heavy price
Hours to end a dispute with bloody consequence
Natural attrition of team strength as no surprise
Brenda's Sunday Whirl Wordle #235 and
Mary's at PU's Poetry Pantry #286
Ah, the law of the jungle isn't always fair, but it is what it is!
ReplyDeleteSurvival of the meanest...
ReplyDeleteI couldn't have said it better myself!
DeleteAgree with Magaly, the survival of the meanest and perhaps the fittest! Nicely done :D
ReplyDeleteSurviving takes strength or wit or a bit of both. The jungle of life can be tough.
ReplyDeleteNothing is fair when it comes to one winning in the wild.
ReplyDeleteHow funny humans can feel these primal urges to fight with bloody consequences....and we have the gift of higher thinking, compassion etc if we chose to use them....but we just seem to stay in these primal urges....nice poem!
ReplyDeleteYou have captured the way of the world through millenia, Hank.
ReplyDeleteAnd so it continues, this need to be the best, the strongest, the one on top,
ReplyDeleteElizabeth
Oh that cruel law... but we always have to battle or win don't we?
ReplyDeleteYou capture well the law of the jungle with your word choices in this---words like 'ostracized' and 'toppled' and 'vanquished' :-)
ReplyDeleteIt is nature's way really--strong write Hank!
ReplyDeleteSurvival of the fittest seems cruel except when you compare it with mankind where it is survival of the wealthy and bigoted regardless of consequences or the good of the world.
ReplyDeleteI liked this poem Hank. It makes me think of humans as well.
ReplyDeleteWe seem to forget that Nature has more than one way, and we can still choose between them,
ReplyDeleteElizabeth
I guess the quintessential question is, "Why". Why is there so much aggression in animals, and we are animals with conscious brains.
ReplyDeleteThe way of the world :( good poem Hank
ReplyDeleteWell you have successfully capture the world's wicked ways.
ReplyDeleteThe jungle has a law unto themselves I believe Hank.
ReplyDeleteAnother good verse.
Yvonne.
A principle which seems to apply across species!
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