photo by Andrew Rice used with permission
Advice on the Introduction of a New Species
Lions don’t do well in a setting too bucolic.
Their herding instinct’s lethal and they flunk in ovine frolic.
Lions need to stalk and kill. They need open savannas.
They’d eat all the lambs and for dessert, eat all their nannas!
And if we shut the lions up, they’d go into decline.
Living in small cages simply isn’t leonine.
Lions need to roam the plains lest they become pathetic.
There’s nothing half so sad as a lion that’s apathetic.
Oh no. I somehow erased the pingbacks for the four prompts for this poem! Thanks to okcforgottenman for pointing this out. Well, better late than never. The prompt words were lion, apathetic, shut and bucolic.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
Over the years, I have come to dislike most of the small zoos I like as a kid. Some though, specialize in doing their best to give them enough room to roam … and in breeding almost extinct breeds.
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Yes.. both the San Diego Zoo and their Wild Animal Park do a great job. And no poachers!!!
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Great poem. Lot of seriousness under the fun verses
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Let the wild remain wild. Hear, hear!
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