Garden of Enchantment
Lush green leaves velvety smooth
Laced with strings of pearly dewdrops
Sparkle brightly in the sunlight that
Filters dappling through high treetops
The chameleon silently gazes and lazes
Stretched on a skinny ochre brown twig
Hopefully sticking out its threadlike tongue
To capture an insect or a falling rainy swig
The toad all puffed up in importance
Swaggers around fearlessly in rippling
Waters hopefully foraging away for
A choice morsel from its darting prey
Lofty thick tree trunk holds a spotted python
Spiraled on its surface lounging laconically
Having partaken a fancy feast of a hare
Having stunned and swallowed it unaware
Jumping monkeys hang high like trapeze artists
Swinging effortlessly from one bough to another
Merrily gossiping in clutches eating bananas
Carefully peeling away sans any jungle bwanas
The air is suddenly rent with sounds of thrashing
Trumpeting herd of elephants rushes by hastily
Escaping the pride of ferocious lions who sense
A great kill, causing uproar and things crashing
The peace and stillness is disturbed for a short span
The chameleon hides, the toad swims away hiding under
Water, the monkeys with their hearts aflutter disappear
But the python still hangs loose with nary a fear
Then all peace and quiet returns, once again the jungle with
Grassy shady knolls, exotic flowers, pristine babbling brooks
Hodgepodge of animals playing amicably becomes a dreamy
Beckoning temptress, a veritable Garden of Enchantment
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Aristotle, Parts of Animals
Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC)
Originally Published: April 2, 2007
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