Category: Consider…

Have you observed the vulture, just a speck up in the sky? He sails around in circles, waiting for his prey to die. His talons are like knives, his beak a handy shredder. Weapons used to take no life, but only make one deader. He flies with empty stomach, you know he’d like to fill […]

Consider the grasshopper; She not here to please. She eats all our flowers And the leaves from our trees. In story she’s lazy She won’t gather or store. She eats for today, Thinking there’s always more. Her main benefit, I think there’s no doubt, Is food for the birds And as bait to catch trout. […]

The giraffe walks around all day, His head up in a cloud. He never says a word, Well, at least not one out loud. From way up there on high, He can see all of the sights. You have to pity a giraffe Who’s deathly scared of heights. He has two little knobby horns; Though […]

Consider the ‘possum, About whom much is said. When life gets too tedious, Mrs. ‘Possum plays dead. She carries her children All around, in her pouch. When they kick and they fight, It has got to be OUCH! But when climbing in trees, And her four feet all fail, And most others would fall, She […]

Consider the octopus With all his weird features. He must be the strangest Of all of God’s creatures. He changes his color, It would seem on a whim, And he changes his shape When it tends to please him. But the oddest of things, If one just stops to think, With nothing to write with, […]