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I love the sloth. Your vivid use of imagery makes us think.
posted by
Amanda__
on March 17, 2015 at 5:06 PM
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Very nice Taps...but that creature....
posted by
Vermont01
on March 15, 2015 at 7:17 AM
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I love your sloth, better alive though.
posted by
Inside_The_Purple_Purse
on March 13, 2015 at 1:43 AM
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Your poem is rich with nature imagery.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on March 12, 2015 at 4:22 PM
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What a wonderful poem about Nature. Cruel sometimes but if you take out the human element, Nature is in harmony. The birds and animals feed on the too slow Sloth, so that the fittest survive and populations remain balanced.
The only reason for imbalance is us...
posted by
Kabu
on March 12, 2015 at 10:57 AM
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Eagles get a lot of cred for being high flying noble creatures, but
sometimes they're just a bit too real for my taste. I like the sentiment that the poacher lost out and your focus on that rather than on the poor pitiful sloth. Blood in tooth and claw, law of the jungle and all that, your post today was factual and dramatic. 
posted by
Pat_B
on March 12, 2015 at 10:03 AM
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Very sad Taps Nature at its bloodiest.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 12, 2015 at 12:28 AM
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Well, I need to give it up....please correct that to: the poacher did not get the sloth!
posted by
Krisles
on March 11, 2015 at 9:02 PM
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Oops! Hit enter too soon....anyway, strange timing but I just watched this local PBS station show I like on Texas parks and nature areas featuring this bird I totally can't recall the name of now (duh!)...but it lives only in one area on earth, the Balcones Basin around Austin, because it makes it's nest in the cedar trees there - the same cedar trees causing the horrid Cedar Fever common to this area which I have now developed and am suffering from.
Anyway, these cedar trees are considered a real pain by all who live around here because of the misery to humans...so people cut them down on their property, ranchers clear them out, simple population growth and expansion has cleared them out.....so the poor birds are, of course threatened. But what broke my heart was an up-close nighttime film showing a rat snake eating a nest full of recent hatchlings while the mama bird just sat there, moved to the edge of the nest....I guess she was too large to go down it's gullet. These two men had been capturing and banding, working so hard to help in saving these birds....and the film had highlighted the dangers of humans to these birds....and then their natural enemy cleaned the nest out quick as that!
Your post was breathtakingly sad...but at least the poacher did get the sloth....it was just as these things go.
posted by
Krisles
on March 11, 2015 at 9:02 PM
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TAPS
posted by
Krisles
on March 11, 2015 at 8:46 PM
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TAPS
I guess that's one of nature's dramas! But in spite of their sometimes sad fate, sloths have one of the friedliest smiles of all thye animals I've ever seen...
posted by
Nautikos
on March 11, 2015 at 8:02 PM
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