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Sonnet № 127651

Mountain Gorillas

by Blue Magpie

Member since 2002 · Posted 21 Jun 2005 · 5 comments

For love she shared their simple mountain lives and taught us all how fragile is their time how less than one small village still survives the wreckage left from years of thoughtless crime. How must it feel to know your species waits upon another’s battle with itself; to see extinction’s fast-approaching gates held open by a richer soul’s ill health; to have no choice except to live, and trust in life, and hope the good in them will win before your kind’s a memory in the dust, and theirs the heir to an unnatural sin? Let us for love and for humanity remember still this name, Dian Fossey.

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[7] Bankrupt_Word_Clerk 22-Jun-05/12:42 AM Reply
you think the gorillas think about our inner struggle as higher primates? you think the gorillas see their imminent extinction and wonder about the cause of it?


I disagree with your heart, but I don't dislike your sonnet.
[n/a] Blue Magpie › Bankrupt_Word_Clerk 22-Jun-05/1:01 PM Reply
No, I don't actually think Gorillas think in such a manner, it is a rhetorical question aimed at the reader, who, except in Rockmage's case is unlikely to be a Gorilla
[6] deleted user 22-Jun-05/3:47 AM Reply
Not fond of bio-poems. The movies about Fossey and Alfred Kinsey painted far too saintlike portrets of these two legends. Of Fossey is said that she was a most unpleasant, ruthless women who preferred gorilla's over people. Well, can't blame her do we? Nevertheless I wished you had done this less as a Who's who bio.
[n/a] Blue Magpie › deleted user 22-Jun-05/1:07 PM Reply
Said by who? Yes ofcourse she was determined, anybody who wasn't would have achieved absolutely nothing.
[7] Dovina 23-Jun-05/7:15 PM Reply
It seems the title is wrong because it's about her, what she did.