Starving
Rictameter form76 total reviews
Comment from tempeste
I'm an animal lover so this poem struck a nerve .
Mankind feels its self above all.. If it is not exploiting animals it is depriving them of their natural habit .
The polar bear is only one of the many victims for man's greed.
In another 10 years maybe less the only polar bears left will be in zoos .. I dread what we are leaving our future generations...a toxic, dying planet.
And then America has a President ,who should be giving a good example , saying global heating is a joke , a tale .
reply by the author on 10-Dec-2018
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I'm an animal lover so this poem struck a nerve .
Mankind feels its self above all.. If it is not exploiting animals it is depriving them of their natural habit .
The polar bear is only one of the many victims for man's greed.
In another 10 years maybe less the only polar bears left will be in zoos .. I dread what we are leaving our future generations...a toxic, dying planet.
And then America has a President ,who should be giving a good example , saying global heating is a joke , a tale .
Comment Written 10-Dec-2018
reply by the author on 10-Dec-2018
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Hi Sweet Girl, I am an animal lover as well...and it sickens me to see what the greedy are doing to all wide life...the polar bear is my favorite...all animals/critters have a purpose in this world...they form a chain of life...and when that chain is broken...we destroy a part of their lives...and ours...
and you are so right what we are leaving for our future family...so sad...
thank you so much for all the lovely stars...and a wonderful review...I am honored you went back to read my poem...love Linda xxoo
Comment from BeasPeas
This is excellent, Linda. Animals loss of habitat and the tough times they face makes every day for them is a challenge. This well written piece touches my heart. Marilyn
reply by the author on 22-Oct-2018
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This is excellent, Linda. Animals loss of habitat and the tough times they face makes every day for them is a challenge. This well written piece touches my heart. Marilyn
Comment Written 22-Oct-2018
reply by the author on 22-Oct-2018
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HI Marilyn, I was watching on tv where they are eating out of garbage cans...and bird feeders because they are so hungry...I started crying...and then posted this poem...we have got to leave them room to survive out there...or we will loss them all...thank you my sweet friend for going back and reading my poem...and for a wonderful review...love you...Linda xxoo
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Hi Linda. I'm aware of this, too. When I lived in Tennessee, there was one fall into winter when the bears came down from the mountains because they had to forage--as you mention--one camped outside our back door and took the black garbage bag into a tree like it was a picnic. Wildlife told us that they were removing bears from the school yards and public places, so if we had no young kids to just be careful going outside until the bears left. The wildlife people were overwhelmed relocating bears that season.
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it is so very sad...makes me cry...I love animals...wildlife...
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Me too.
Comment from Dawn Munro
Oh, how my heart connects with this personification of the bear. Yes, humanity was given dominion over the rest of the animal kingdom, but as caretakers,not to abuse the great privilege, IMO. This poem is wonderful, my friend!!!
reply by the author on 17-Oct-2018
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Oh, how my heart connects with this personification of the bear. Yes, humanity was given dominion over the rest of the animal kingdom, but as caretakers,not to abuse the great privilege, IMO. This poem is wonderful, my friend!!!
Comment Written 16-Oct-2018
reply by the author on 17-Oct-2018
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HI Dawn, so very true sweet angel...people are self now...but that is how the Bible says it will be...I wll never be that way...I don't know how people care live with themselves...just thinking about themselves...thank you my sweet friend for going back and reading my poem... for a wonderful review...love you much...Linda xxoo
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You're very welcome, Linda, dear woman. XX
Comment from Sally Law
This is wonderful Linda! Great picture of the black bear! My brother-in-Law lives near the Wekiva Reserve here in Florida. Black bears frequent his property. One came to his outdoor freezer and ate a bag of frozen peanut M&M's. Must have been a female! Thank you for this and your sweet, kind heart.
All my best,
Sally
reply by the author on 11-Oct-2018
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This is wonderful Linda! Great picture of the black bear! My brother-in-Law lives near the Wekiva Reserve here in Florida. Black bears frequent his property. One came to his outdoor freezer and ate a bag of frozen peanut M&M's. Must have been a female! Thank you for this and your sweet, kind heart.
All my best,
Sally
Comment Written 11-Oct-2018
reply by the author on 11-Oct-2018
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LMBO...frozen peanut M&M's....well peanuts are good for you...my father used to put corn out for the deer, wild birds...turkey, and cranes...and anything else that came in his land...we were a family of animal lovers...I would be putting fish out for the bears...LOL...on a picnic table...LOL...with peanut M&M's...LOL...thank you Sally for a wonderful review...and your kind words...nd you are so welcome...all the best to you too...love Linda xxoo
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You?re so welcome! :+) Sal
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smiling big...xxoo love
Comment from flylikeaneagle
I like how you show an awareness for wildlife. Man needs to have
a mixture of green spots for the animals. Many people are buying
tiny homes to down size. We can connect with animals and enjoy
the land too. flylikeaneagle
reply by the author on 07-Oct-2018
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I like how you show an awareness for wildlife. Man needs to have
a mixture of green spots for the animals. Many people are buying
tiny homes to down size. We can connect with animals and enjoy
the land too. flylikeaneagle
Comment Written 06-Oct-2018
reply by the author on 07-Oct-2018
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Hi Nancy, thank you my sweet friend for a wonderful review...we are taking more and more of their land...lets hope people wake up...God Bless....love you...Linda xxoo
Comment from victor 66
I've said this before and I don't think it's all that original, "This planet doesn't need us, We need it." We look to the future not at all. Creatures in the wild have it tough enough without mankind deciding to completely change the earth. The first people in the U.S. date back 13,000 years. How could modern man and woman do so much damage in just a few hundred years? It's depressing but we can't give up. I appreciate your poem. Take care.
reply by the author on 06-Oct-2018
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I've said this before and I don't think it's all that original, "This planet doesn't need us, We need it." We look to the future not at all. Creatures in the wild have it tough enough without mankind deciding to completely change the earth. The first people in the U.S. date back 13,000 years. How could modern man and woman do so much damage in just a few hundred years? It's depressing but we can't give up. I appreciate your poem. Take care.
Comment Written 06-Oct-2018
reply by the author on 06-Oct-2018
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Hi Victor, Amen my sweet friend...you said it when you said...This plant doesn't need us, We need it...and it is hard enough for the wildlife to survive on it's own ....on their land...but like we have been stealing land forever...we are still doing it...Victor, these poor animals can't even feed their babies...their staving...what is wrong with the ones that keep taking their land???...can't they see...or do they care...sigh...thank you for alllll your wonderful stars....and your wonderful review...your so right...love Linda xxoo
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You are most welcome, my dear friend.
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smiling big...xxoo love
Comment from karenina
Nice rictameter! (I haven't seen this form in awhile!)--Important theme, as well--we have more and more bear digging into our trash and showing up at children's parks in our town. No consideration seems to have been given when building more than our fair share of "McMansions" and the forest has been diminished such that bear, fox, even bobcat are roaming the neighborhoods in search of food! NOW people are complaining of the inconvenience and lack of safety for their own pets.
A little forethought would have been so beneficial!
Karenina
reply by the author on 06-Oct-2018
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Nice rictameter! (I haven't seen this form in awhile!)--Important theme, as well--we have more and more bear digging into our trash and showing up at children's parks in our town. No consideration seems to have been given when building more than our fair share of "McMansions" and the forest has been diminished such that bear, fox, even bobcat are roaming the neighborhoods in search of food! NOW people are complaining of the inconvenience and lack of safety for their own pets.
A little forethought would have been so beneficial!
Karenina
Comment Written 06-Oct-2018
reply by the author on 06-Oct-2018
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HI Karenina, tears my sweet friend...it breaks my heart when I think about it...they are so hungry and we just keep taking...I hate thinking they have no food...we have vacant buildings all around us...but two blocks over their tearing down trees to build another...they better stop sweet girl...God put every thing that lives here for a reason...sigh...thank you so much for a wonderful review...and you are so right...love you...Linda xxoo
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I so agree! We are warned to keep our pets inside, put bricks atop our trash can lids, take in our bird feeders, so as not to attract these innocent victim animals whose homes humans desgtroyed! It's insane! Still, in my town we have a "six Flags and even as I write this they have razed yet another several acres of forest to put in another parking lot...
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my father when he was alive...had a lot of land in the back woods....he fed the birds, cranes, turkey, dear, and anything else that walked through his yard...and the neighbors when his garden grew...it's heartless to watch a animal starving... and no try to help it...I am so sick of them covering this country with cement...and unneeded buildings...if I had the money....I would by land...and put them in there...NO HUNTING...love you...xxoo
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love you too!
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smiling...xxoo love
Comment from Shreya Ramanathan
Thanks for writing this! I completely agree with what you have written. I am an environmental engineer and it pains to see things that you can't stop completely. Nice touch with the words. All the best!
reply by the author on 06-Oct-2018
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Thanks for writing this! I completely agree with what you have written. I am an environmental engineer and it pains to see things that you can't stop completely. Nice touch with the words. All the best!
Comment Written 06-Oct-2018
reply by the author on 06-Oct-2018
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Hi Shreya, what a wonderful job...I hate just thinking what these poor animals are going through...and so many just turn their backs to them...thank you so much for a wonderful review...and all the best to you as well...love Linda xxoo
Comment from Lulube
A very fast read but filled with great imagery and spoken with feelings for this bear that wakes up to his home and feeding grounds gone. You portrayed the inner thoughts that may be in his head. I can't see why it wouldn't be. Important issues are brought up and poems like this one should be used to grab the nation's interest to put a damper on destroying land that other's live on and depend on it for survival.
lulube
reply by the author on 06-Oct-2018
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A very fast read but filled with great imagery and spoken with feelings for this bear that wakes up to his home and feeding grounds gone. You portrayed the inner thoughts that may be in his head. I can't see why it wouldn't be. Important issues are brought up and poems like this one should be used to grab the nation's interest to put a damper on destroying land that other's live on and depend on it for survival.
lulube
Comment Written 06-Oct-2018
reply by the author on 06-Oct-2018
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Hi Lulube, I think it is awful the way we just cut down the trees....and pave the roads that the wildlife is living on...it seems a lifetime we have been destroying humans...and wildlife's land...it is sooooo glad to see you my sweet friend...thank you for a wonderful review...love you....Linda xxoo
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welcome
in my more recent home of over 30 yrs, in the last 5 yrs I had a family, it's family extensions, of racoons come by my balcony of my apartment on the back, ground floor corner. There was one that the mother brought when only 4-6 months old and she kept coming back for the next 3 years. One of her ears had the tip bitten off, so I called her Broken ear. (of course I've written poems about her and family) She also was dealing with an infection in one eye. I had her taking my cats dry food out of my hand, she stole my heart. But of course there were those that only saw me adding to the garbage cans being raided. Not by my girl!! she left full.
lulube I miss her terribly and wonder how she is doing? I moved away last summer, broke my heart to leave her
lulube
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I know how you feel...I used to have a squirrel family where I once lived...it broke my heart to leave them...and I still wonder how they are doing...sigh...one of them had a disabled foot...I fed them peanuts day and night...I so loved them...xxoo love you
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writer's have a heart like no other
lulube
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they truly do...sigh...smiling big...xxoo love you
Comment from Mustang Patty
Hi there,
Thank you so much for sharing this rictameter about the plight of our wildlife. Yes, man continues to impede on the homelands of the wild, and then they complain when the wildlife ventures into 'our turf' to look for food and shelter.
They are having to shoot cougar where I live. They are coming into yards to drink from bird baths, and they are killing small pets. Of course they are - they have nowhere else to hunt,
~MP~
reply by the author on 06-Oct-2018
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Hi there,
Thank you so much for sharing this rictameter about the plight of our wildlife. Yes, man continues to impede on the homelands of the wild, and then they complain when the wildlife ventures into 'our turf' to look for food and shelter.
They are having to shoot cougar where I live. They are coming into yards to drink from bird baths, and they are killing small pets. Of course they are - they have nowhere else to hunt,
~MP~
Comment Written 06-Oct-2018
reply by the author on 06-Oct-2018
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Hi Patty, I am so sorry they are having to do that where you live...I feel so bad for all the wildlife out there...they are starving...their babies are starving...and people get mad when they come in their yards to eat...they tell the people not to put food where they can get it...what kind of garbage is that...send them away hungry...like you said...they have nowhere else to hunt...you are so welcome sweet girl...and that you for a truly wonderful review....love you...Linda xxoo
