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Diane Hine (25 July 1956)
Poems by Diane Hine : 55 / 182
Escape
Tree
Frog
eggs
leaf
glossy, gelatinous
Black
wasp
bodes
grief
Jelly viscosity
tight
Larvae in quivering
plight
Clinginess cedes to the
bite
Supper for babies in
flight........flight
flight
Days
pass;
not
yet
spinning and fidgeting
Wasp
back;
get
set
Jiggle is signal of
rip
Tadpoles instinctively
flip
Wriggle to liquify
grip
Perilous pondwater
slip.........slip
slip
Diane Hine
Submitted: Friday, July 06, 2012
Poems by Diane Hine : 55 / 182
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My God! From the biting wasp, the tadpole escapes to slip into the strangulating pondwater.The pitiable creature has not yet learnt swimming.Still it is half-grown, I think. Unfortunate it is to escape a small danger to fall into the yawning big one. Only the fittest can survive in this harsh world. Excellent!
A very slippery write - good though.
Love the poem, and the form! !
Every slippery clinging amphibian's perfects exit.
This is different and one by one they leap and leave. Love the linear form and free flow... flow, flow.
Today's lesson is 'Life cycle of Frog'. Actually it is quite palpitating when we see the frog's eggs, floating..