The great bullfrog

in The Ink Well5 years ago

Let me bother you - a bullfrog's song
Is sweeter than milk when night's
Aged father taps the cobbles hungry
For blood & bone to gnaw.
It is beautiful than say - dying stars,
Imploding suns, tattered universes
Because the frog breathes here -
Alive in that terrible silence, it
Jumps - great leaps of sudden joy,
It tongues the naked flesh of flies
In the quickest gasps of wonder.
The fly screams an eternal subsonic,
it struggle its wings broken in the
Indefinite trauma of the bullfrog's
Savagery, it contemplates death
Within the warm sticky wetness
Of the bullfrog's tongue - it learns,
At last, of fear before it gasps its last.
The bullfrog is powerful.
It subjugates the pond, the puddle,
The stagnant waters of smaller things.
It takes life & calls it a blessing -
The bullfrog is the king of the world.
It sits on its throne of water lilies
Spread like barges on the warm
Brown of its dirty sea.
The water lily does not care
Who sits on her face as long as
She is allowed the chance to breathe.
The bullfrog chews her flowers
For dessert & presses her into the
Bed of the sluggish pond with the
Writ of its distended gut, the slow
Puzzle of its swallowing throat,
It's bulging eye, the sallow slimy
Redness of its hungry lips.
She cannot say no.
She pities the flies their quick lives
& gather their flimsy wings to feed
The fishes that watch blob like
From under the bullfrog's anus -
The bullfrog is the king of the world.



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For anyone who has ever sat long and gazed at the goings on in a lily pad covered pond, this takes us right back there, seeing the marvelous turnings of the earth. Very very nice. Thank you.

Thank you very much for these kind words.

Thank you for your very kind words

#Loveit! So many great lines, memorable images. E.g.

dying stars,
Imploding suns, tattered universes
Because the frog breathes here -

The bullfrog is the king of the world.
It sits on its throne of water lilies
Spread like barges on the warm
Brown of its dirty sea.

Awesome!

Thank you @carolkean. I am glad

I seem to be stalking @carolkean today. Could be worse footsteps to follow. xo

I thought I might be stalking you - you'd already commented on the posts I was looking for via The Ink Well. We're both stalking new Ink Well Dwellers!

Stalking is good as long as its enjoying the delicacies spread across this here community for consumption. Thank you both for stopping by.

I will read this again. Thanks for the upvote.

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Thank you for stopping by.

@warpedpoetic, This creature is surrounded with many Myths too like when they Cry it rains. Have a great time ahead and stay blessed.

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