Oh the creatures

The long necked
The short legged
 
The feathery
The leathery
 
The swimmers
The burrowers
 
The swift
The slow
 
The biters
The purrers
 
The lethal
sting in the tailers
 
The delicate ones
blown far from home by storms
 
The hardy survivors
Oh the weird and wonderful forms
 
I’ve seen
on David Attenborough’s programmes…
 
oh the creatures!
 
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Yesterday
I watched a tiny spider
cocoon a fly,
 
speedily and efficiently
wrapping it in silk…
 
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Oh the creatures
that live alongside us
 
the mind-boggling
miraculous creatures.
 
Though if you inform me
we have a God
 
we must praise
for all that is wonderful
 
I’ll be asking
 
why flood
why fire
 
why cancer etc
why COVID-19?