On the Serengeti in Tanzania, the Leopard is one of the fastest animals,
I did love him at first and for many years. Together we had 3 children.
Its distinctive spotted coat is a kind of camouflage in the long grass as it crawls,
He was a wonderful husband, He worked hard and was a very generous man.
The Gazelle is also fast and has sharp horns to protect itself from attack,
I don’t know what happened. He just didn’t want to make love at all,
The Leopard prefers to catch young gazelle that are separated from the pack.
When he did make love he was wonderful and I was very happy as I recall.
The Leopard stalks the herd of gazelle slowly and patiently,
I don’t know why I had affairs. They were not satisfying me really,
It crawls quietly toward the Gazelle and when it is close enough it charges viciously.
I was just trying to make friends with my lovers that’s all truly.
Able to turn quickly and accelerate the Leopard easily grabs the Gazelle by the neck,
When my husband found out I felt guilty, then I felt angry, and soon after I felt nothing.
And bites with long sharp teeth and hangs on with powerful claws that wreck.
I just wanted a friend. I had no friends at that time. I wanted friendship or something.
The Leopard drags the dead Gazelle into a den and onto a tree branch,
It devours the dead flesh and after a rest and moves on to the next avalanche.
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David Wakeling (
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David this is such a wonderful and poetic set of parallels well written and matched it can not be anything but a fave. The setting of the wild and the domestic, the seductive aspects of the hunt in either case is wild and savage. The preditor and the prey the surrender to emotion and drive to survive is most impactful. Here is life and survival, sex and blood in its most privative and visceral forms. A really magnificent write raw and so well penned. I believe that you meant stalked not storks on the third to the last stanza but not sure.
Thank you so much.It was a departure from the normal.I hope it works.Yes the parallel between a Gazelle and a Leopard, Doctor and his patient and a Women and her affair was deliberate,Both are filled with savagery.Thank you for you insight
You are most welcome David
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