I love animals !
some, of course, more than others,
like Elephant babies and their protective mothers.
I love Lions and Cheetahs and Banded Mongoose
of course I love Thompson Gazelles and Greater Kudus.
there are few things so brilliantly bright
as a sun-drenched Kingfisher Malachite.
an Afro-Jakana, or called Lilly Trotter
a playfully romping Giant Otter
are some of the creatures I honestly love
as well as a Saddle Bill Stork and a White Winged Dove.
a Lapped Faced Vulture and a Yellow Billed Stork
and a Drongo with a Tail like a Fork.
there, on a tree stump, a foot above water
a King Cormorant drying her wings, at least so she oughter.
an Orange Flanked Sungazer and a Reticulated Giraffe
Bee Eaters and Sparrow Weavers are creatures I love.
of eight White Faced Whistling Ducks crossing a pond
and a Crowned Crane on the shore line, I truly grew fond.
Baboons up a tree full of figs
Warthogs don't like the name „ pigs.“
Colobus Monkeys and Bee-Eaters Little
straight horned Oryx and Jackals with fiddle.
the Ibis, some Sacred some Glossy,
the Hippo down river behaves mostly bossy.
The Green or Black Mamba, a bit harder to like
than a bird called, with justice, a Crimson Breast Shrike.
each pond and each river, not only the Nile,
houses great numbers of Nile Crocodile.
a Duiker, so Common and a Genet, a cat,
and a Wildebeest grazing, what make you of that ?
a Bateleur Eagle and Vultures galore
are just some of the loved creatures. there are many more.
Bertstravels
never claimed to be Walt Whitman
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