SOME ANIMALS with a Capital A

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