The Cheetah/ The Elephant/ the Wood-Pecker Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

The Cheetah

The cheetah
How spotted, gold marked,
With yellow and black spots,
Freckled and speckled
The brute,
The east of the forest!

The beauty of the wild,
The mystery of nature
So slick and swift-footed,
Bloody and beastly
The wild animal!


The Elephant

The elephant
So huge and gigantic
The mammoth,
The elephant
Standing just like
A chunk of a rock
Or a banyan tree
With its aerial roots.


The Wood-pecker

The wood-pecker
With its strange colour and look
Pecking into the bust of the tree
Like a carpenter at work
The wood-pecker
Pecking and making a shrill sound
When to fly or call
The strangely-looking wood-pecker
A bird of its type.