My Best Photographs Series 10: Animals - Tame and Wild

My Best Photographs Series 10 

Animals - Tame and Wild 

Applied humanities in creative photography and poetry.

Dr Abe V Rotor

Marsupials at Brisbane Museum

Marsupials - animals with pouches,

second womb for their premature babies,

 only in Australia and New Zealand found -

it's one among evolution's mysteries

White hawk preys on rodents

Predation - key to survival of the fittest,

so said Charles Darwin in his theory;

only the strong with claws and wings,

in reality and in bedtime story. 

Kangaroo in Brisbane Museum

Kangaroo -  Australia's signature animal, 

Know him more in the wild, at least, in a zoo.

Friendly parrot, Brisbane Zoo

It seeks either company or food,

a test if you're kind and good. 

At home in San Vicente, Ilocos Sur

Camouflage or mimicry?

I, the artist of this mural,

amazed and happy.

St Paul University, QC

By a glass pane one morning

I found this  loving couple.

Indeed it's a great wonder: 

crepuscular - somewhere

between nocturnal or diurnal. 

 

Cat on her lap

Sun bathing this duo I found 

in the garden early one morning 

when others are in the rush hour,

in silence and prayer.  

Brooding hen in a broken jar

Whatever use this jar has, 

all ruined, save its crown,

yet a mother hen found it

a haven for her young.  

Preying mantis

Executioner - that's his brand,

this terror with built-in sword,

all gentle or feigning dead

to survive in this cruel world. 

Long horned grasshoppers feeding on the flower 

of balibago, Tagaytay

 You share the beauty of your host -

and beauty itself the cost. ~

Halloween Moth

 You can't hide behind mask;

it is no longer Halloween;
with thin lips and sleepy eyes,

          I know where you've been. ~  

     

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