a lovely poem. Thanks,

FP


>From: Audrey Manning <audrey.manning@...>
>Reply-To: mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com
>To: mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [mukto-mona] Attn : Shabnam Nadiya - From Dr. Ajoy Roy
>Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 09:37:58 +0000
>
>To: Bishnu Dey
>You comments are well taken! I observe insects, birds and animals every
>day and write about them from time to time.
>Here is a poem I wrote when I observed an ant that obviously did not
>have the 'personality' of his fellow ants.
>
>ONE NIGHT
>©Audrey Manning 1997
>
>Outside the rain hits the window;
>Inside I am all alone.
>It scurries across the floor,
>Sensing the unclaimed prize.
>Removing the carcass
>Is expected to be an easy task,
>For Winter’s bitter wind is very near.
>But, tugging, pulling, surveying
>Does not produce the desired results.
>Perhaps an army would have the answer!
>The army marches in one by one.
>They survey, pull, tug
>And slump away daunted.
>Would it accept defeat?
>Once more it surveys the prize.
>Suddenly, it begins to dissect the fly
>And carry away the pieces, bit by bit.
>'And Ladies of the Club’
>Arrive for their meeting.
>Cold hands are shaken;
>Meaningless words are spoken.
>The guest speaker walks across the floor,
>In bare feet. . . . . . .
>“O, my God! There’s an ant!”
>Another foot, still clad,
>Is raised and dropped. . .
>It was but a nanosecond
>In the march of time!
>
>
>Bishnu Dey wrote:
>
> > We do not know what levels of
> > intelligence exist among the animal species that cohabit this earth.
> > We do
> > not know if animals, insects etc. feel the same need to attribute
> > their
> > existence to the mysteries of that "supernatural power", or some other
> >
> > entity.


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