Battle Between Bird and Beast
My name is Jamie Lee Hamann and I started sharing poetry articles back in 2013. Every year I share a poem a day in April.
Battle Between Bird and Beast
Before horrible wars of man
the animals would sometimes fight
in tales from ancient Africa
a quarrel over what was right.
An ostrich and an Elephant
to turn a squabble into war
started a famous arguement
much destruction and nothing more.
The Ostrich tired of Elephant
mindlessly stomping on bird's nest,
treated birds as irrelevant,
declared a war upon plain's crest.
The Elephant began to laugh
animals of prairie also
would not believe in a birds wrath
could not foresee untimely woe.
Yet form above the bombs did fall
Ostrich eggs were flung upon heads
with each egg launched animals call
and hit hard ground as if their beds.
The bruise that came from battle loss
would lead into an all out war
land animals lost the coin toss
and from above the birds knew score.
© 2022 Jamie Lee Hamann