Coyotes in the Grass

I used to jog around Balboa Park in Encino. One day a coyotes jumped on the same path. It was fearful yet refreshing. Since then I started seeing them in the high grass-staring

Coyotes in the Grass

 

 

Coyotes hide in the waist high weeds

On the other side of the golf course

Between the trail and the stream

Flowers are their Camouflage

From mans fearful stares

They watch me from their green bastion

Wondering my purpose

Pondering my fate

For the fear of the human race has escaped

A while back

They see our weaknesses

As we jog past their primitive eyes

Unaware we are overmatched

 

The coyotes frolic in the grass

Skipping into oblivion

Yet I would much rather be human then a squirrel

God help the ground squirrel

 

Author's Note

Coyotes----

Reviews

[DRD]

the ending made me laugh, but I loved it. Coyotes rule.

[Demi Rose]

i feel a little bit smarter now after reading this.

[freelancejouster]

i find this so beautiful

[Coyote Poetry]

Coyotes can live anywhere. They roam into the city of Detroit. They can adapt to all environments. They are peaceful unless you attack them. I like this poem. I saw Coyote in the middle of Death valley in California. No water, little prey to be hunted. They survive somehow. Thank you for the excellent poem.
Coyote

[Reeti]

Coyotes certainly here stands as a veneration. It has invoked you to write about the dichotomy of the human race and that of the wild animals comparatively. You have originally experienced the confrontation with a coyote in the similar setting. And yet, you have evidently used marvelous imagination to make your down-to-earth conclusions. I love the 'green bastion' and 'as we jog... unaware we are overmatched' part. We humans, at least most of us, are fearless and remorseless like savage, cunning beasts.

[Poetic Beauty]

The last line is true and comical. I like the flow in this poem and thought you have put into this piece.

[Sagar Waingankar]

A moment, a mammal and a thinker! What a mixture in nature! Well worked on it!

[Amila Jay]

A great poem:-)

[Aidz]

Thanks for the glimpse into yr world, no coyotes in Oz only snakes and Im keeping away from them had enough tangles with the vipers

[Lindsey]

Great job I really enjoyed reading this :)