It was just a normal evening
at bird feeding time
everything going well
until the Velociraptors showed up
all glassy eyed, sharp-clawed and greedy.
Even the Bluejays scattered.
It took me by surprise,
dinosaur husbandry, anyone?
Mad bird misfits
running wildly about
gnashing those beak teeth.
They spotted my collie
who stared warily from the porch.
I wasn’t exactly sure
if they consumed birdseed
thinking maybe, they preferred
hapless blonde girls
with too many cats.
Oh, I had always bet
the Mockingbirds were the worst
but that was before
the backyard filled
with Velociraptors
prehistoric bad boys
unexpected crisis.
Would I live to warn the neighbors?
This might mean that next year’s
Rock of Legends cruise
is off…
that I would end up
a pile of bleached bones.
Would the cardinals return
to honor my memory
missing their black sunflower seeds?
As I was busy regretting
those things you regret
when surrounded by
large dinosaur birds,
they suddenly stopped,
rolled their beady eyes
and launched skyward.
Momentarily and sufficiently shocked,
I looked down the road
toward the chicken keepers.
Oh, how to tell them
worry is much bulkier
than the standard chicken hawk.
I have 3 chicken hawks that visit my yard. My chickens don’t really like the company. 😀
I can see why, those things mean business! Move along, chicken hawks, velociraptors… :0
Now write one about evolution please?
I may have to look into that topic a bit more, ha ha.
Oh yeah, the first thing I would think when face with a life threatening situation is that the Rock of Legends cruise might be off!
That’s right, Marissa…we think alike on that one, ha ha!
the doggone dinosaurs get into everything. you always have to keep a 12 gauge loaded with deer slugs within arms reach just in case they want to get out of hand.
Oh Jim, ha ha. 1st thing you must learn, and I know it is hard to believe…not all Texans are gun crazy. But those pesky dinousaurs need to be stopped…
I have never heard of a ‘Chicken Hawk’ before Lana, so I had to resort to Mr Google who has informed me fully……….. I did find a very amusing photo[shopped] of a half hawk, half chicken bird which kind of fitted the first image that popped into my head when I began reading ……… 😀
Oh that sounds like a great image for sure….I should have looked around more. I usually just resort to Pixabay because the images are free and no attribution is required.
That day is coming, Lana. We think Jurassic Park was a sci-fi novel/movie. Bwahahaha. Fun poem!
I know it, Diana. I think it is coming… Thank you!
Yuk. I do not like bad birds. At least you are here to tell more great stories.
John, I narrowly escaped, but yes, I’m still here 🙂
Glad that you are still here.
Velociraptors Control Plan? I think there’s an ap for that. A fun poem, you crazy cat lady! At least you didn’t panic in the beady-eyed face of danger. 🙂
Joan, you are so right, I was actually fairly calm about it. I’ve got to look for that ap…you just never know what you might do in the beady-eyed face of danger!
Me, I’d blame it all on climate change. Those Arctic ices are melting and freeze-dried dinosaurs are popping out… look out man, you may find yourself facing a worthy and able opponent on the predator fields…
That may be exactly it! Hopefully all those happy hunters who kill things just to be killing will be the best dinosaur morsels 🙂
Yes! Of course we could start a “Hunt the Hunters’ Hunt Club”…
I rather like Hawks. They throw such interesting and threatening shadows when they are hunting. Your velociraptors must do the same or at least your writing through interesting patterns into my mind.
Hawks are devout hunters for sure…those threatening shadows. I remember watching a little bird in the sky one day just flying along…then I saw that big, ominous bird shadow over the little bird, and that hawk dove down…and 🙁 for the smaller bird. But that is the natural order of things. I would imagine the raptors would make quite the shadow for sure.
Ooh, those things are scary-looking! And here, I hurry my Sheltie inside when I see hawks circling overhead!
I’m telling you Debbie, one day it’s hawks, the next day…maybe Velociraptors! I know what you mean, though…those hawks are serious hunters.