Describe a risk you took that you do not regret.
In open safari vehicle
my driver Robert
drives right up on the lions
who have killed and eaten
a water buffalo
of last night’s kill
I can smell the carcass
and hope that they
are too full
to find interest in me
Describe a positive thing a family member has done for you.
On safari
with my daughter
sharing the joy
of being together
the thrill of a rare siting
look
a leopard
lots of lions
look
a caracal
small cats are harder to see
antelope
bat-eared fox
caracal
dik dik
elephant
fish eagle
gazelle
hyena
impala
jackal
kudu
lion
mongoose
Nile crocodile
oryx
panther
quagga
rhino
serval
topi
uromastyx
vervet monkey
wildebeest
xerus
yellow baboon
zebra
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NaPoWriMo Day 18 to write an abecedarian. I am on safari now and have seen many of these.
Do you hear the lion roar?
Black maned big boy
walks across the plain
looking for dinner
I hope it’s not me
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NaPoWriMo Day 13 prompt from the serious to funny?
Hippo looks so very slow
just make it mad
and watch it go
Cheetah lying in the grass
sways its tail while leaning back
waiting for an antelope
Elephant eats and eats
tearing branches from a tree
makes a big dung pile
Zebra photographs the best
standing lovely with its stripes
is it black or is it white
Maasai giraffe has different patterns
not so common as the others
its neck touches tree tops
Lion eats a killed buffalo
sleeps in the day to get some rest
back to the hunt at night
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dVerse prompt on animals
Need a zoom lens
I’m too far away
to see the whiskers
on the small cat’s face
grab my binoculars
to see it better now—
long pointed ears
with black tufted points
stripes on head
tan body
it turns
and walks into the bush
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dVerse prompt to write a quadrille using the word zoom. I would have loved having a zoom lens to photograph the elusive caracal, a rare siting on the Maasai Mara.
The lions were sleeping from a food hangover brought on by feasting all night on a water buffalo. Two females, a young male and the dominant male were lying near the carcass. On the road we had seen a young male, alone under a tree. The game driver said that lion had been outcast because he had killed the cubs of a female. Another female was now hiding her cubs in the bush to keep them alive.
The driver takes us straight to the carcass. The dominant male gets up for seconds. The ribs have been stripped of meat. The head still there. He is not interested in me today. I watch as he applies pressure from his teeth, his paws.
on the open plain
animals graze and lookout
preying or preyed on
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dVerse prompt to write a haibun about a situation of pressure. I was going to add a photo but kind of gross.
I went to Mombasa
I did not see rain
there is drought in Amboseli
elephants are dying
wildebeests zebras Maasai giraffe
🦒🐘🦒🐘🦒🐘🦒🐘🦒🐘🦒🐘
I went to Maasai land
I did not see a bow
only spears and panga
arrows used to kill
when the loins attack
🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆
I went to Maasai Mara
to see the wildlife
thunderstorms on the horizon
got wet in the landrover
viewed a perfect rainbow
🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈
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dVerse prompt to use a threesome. My choice is rain, bow and rainbow.
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