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Flight Of The Intruder

There he stands, perched high above the rapids. Eyes searching for morsels of life, head perked and ready. SWOOOOSH!!! He dives straight down, like a kamikazee in war. His talons spread like a net, he grasps the fish by shore. With incredible power he pounds his wings and rises. Muscles screaming and eyes blaring, he powers his way to the top. There he is king of the skies, the cream of the crop. With eyes ever watchful for danger, he steers his path to his throne. By now the fish is limp, stabbed through,like Caesar, with daggers of power. He feeds and nurtures his young, eyes still peaked and watchful. His mane as straight as the lion's, king of the plains, a king to his throne, like Caesar to Rome. A sudden twitch catches his eye, he turns and peers a mile. A two-pronged hopper ventures there, he lifts with a mean looking smile. SWOOOOSH!!! He locks in on his target, inching his way to immortality. The hopper has no where to run, he knows he has been seen. The monarch zooms in, faster than a jet in a war zone. Yards away from contact, BANG!!!Banished from his home. Now this beautiful bird, king of the skies. Lies mangled and helpless, on the barren ground he dies. He did not die in battle, but in living his life. As the blunt object ripped through him, due to mankind's strife. He did not die a tyrant, but a symbol to all. Of the freedom a country has, though even good things must fall. Some say he was ambitious, but he was trying to survive. So honorable men "in their own minds", decided that he must die. There will be no king, to rule these skies anymore. For they say he was an intruder, so they 'let slip the dogs of war'.

Copyright © December 2000 Rick Phillip Angus

Additional Notes:
i wrote this in high school after reading William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and thought this would make a good poem.i hope you like it.this was published in my high school magazine '94.i acknowledge the reference of Shakespeare in the last line of the poem.


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