As a Snake-Eyed Skink Pursues

“Me think,
I must speedily
rethink
my position,”

thought a snake-eyed skink
bleeding its biliverdin blood green

(by bile colored from ingesting flies, moths, fleas–
pests of life creating havoc for some fink human beings)
causing its present revolting indisposition:

Brink of extinct.

Succinct its emotion: “Obviously, needed
a ‘shrink!’,”

slinking away without its tail
held
after its ‘presence’ wrinkled
a homeowner’s nose as vermin stink.

Then grabbed a broom
to it assail.

“You’d thought I was a living Sphinx!”
inwardly exclaimed, “the way he blinked,”
continued this reptile’s tale

before camouflaged in a tree.
Its life to prevail.

From its higher vantage point
to see
irate ‘man’
at kitchen sink
with cup in hand about to drink;

while liquid,
‘his’
still did leak as precious ink,
pink

or pig who oinks distinct in hue.

Intune, heard
an indistinct clink
through window seen in sync–

glass to shatter…

Lacking eyelids,
unlike a snake in wink

His reaction? ‘Tink’ back.
Try to remove tragic kink
in sad relationship link to this mimicked ‘nink’

deficient in trust…

As zinc’s used ‘preventing’ rust,
skink slid through a window slightly askew
as a room resembling a rink of bloodied ‘players’

he did view…200 words
Write a poem for contest breathing in life – Irish Rose

100-200 words

No PREWRITES, Haikus or Religious
Poem is Prompt:

Half a life
breathless,
as many
take our breath
away,
so few, I’m learning,
finally
give it back.

-Tyler Knott Gregson-

Photo credit:
http://australianherpetology.com/skinks.htm © 5 minutes ago, Lucretia McCloud    teen • hope • society