Diane Hine (25 July 1956)
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Cusp
Hunters kill on the veldt,
butcher the carcass, strip red meat and leave.
Scavengers find by sight or smell,
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We are still Neanderthals, we just dress better!
Great write, I won't mention the wallabies.
I liked the line, with hammerstone sculpted river pellet blades.
Rich imagery.
We are still Neanderthals, we just dress better!
Great write, I won't mention the wallabies.
I liked the line, with hammerstone sculpted river pellet blades.
Rich imagery.
strange, it wasn't 'thus spake Zarathustra' that Margaret Throsby played coincidently as I read this, but 'the blue danube' and I saw that space hostess walking around the cylinder.
And they knew what it was they were eating. Unlike today.
Another great poem for the pot.
Aha a splendid poem with readers enjoyable scavenging imagery. Kudos!
Yes, the hunters are too smart to hunt for food, but now hunters wear different hats! Nice to read!
But the earth and its echo systems have been upset by man. The evolution over a few millennia has had the shade of misuse and abuse that man is boasting of.
Man...not much difference then and now.Except for his ability to now scavenge the whole earth (strip, unearth,
make bare all earth)
What has been thrown away by some becomes sustenance for another! Over millenniums, for survival, man resorts to more viable techniques! ! That's all! A very imaginative write! !
Through what struggles for existence over milleniums, the modern man has evolved into his present stature! A very imaginative read! !