‘A Flying Fiery Snake’ (contest… What’s Going To Happen ? … – RolinSton

A flying fiery snake

“poisonous darting” in a slithering crooked line
I’d spotted as it flew
for cover under a sparse vine

in a steadfast active garden patch
of mine.

Tended to by grown arthritic fingers
continually weeding in acidic soil
grown more

due to violence,
crime;

yet rays warmed my curved aching spine
while I pruned

so as not to spoil nourishment
necessitated

to feed; seed…

In shadows
a dark figure I saw
loosed it.

Then leaped back–its owner,
before bit… pursed by it?

Dropped so as to impede me by poisoning?…

Discretion I heed, though

in anger I flicked on my porch light
with flashlight in hand

but this figure had already slinked back
into a starless night

to watch in stand or crouch
with pouch in hand?

Darkness would not permit me to utter a vehement shout
which could disturb those innocently asleep

about;

who’d awaken peeved…

Grieved… I’d inwardly agreed to await daybreak.
Maybe expose its deadly presence with spade plus rake

for of what benefit to alight from provided protection
to poke under bushes

to fight insurrection?
my thought.

Especially when I knew
that morning’s brightness always renews.

I’d thirty winks any successful reactions
for precious promised ‘tomorrows’;

muse…

Whereas battles fought in bleakness
never really garner ‘wins’;

prevails…

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