{"id":29154,"date":"2016-09-02T07:54:23","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T07:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=29154"},"modified":"2016-09-02T07:58:50","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T07:58:50","slug":"bowhunters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/09\/bowhunters\/","title":{"rendered":"Bowhunters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being out in the wilderness<br \/>\nAll seeing and alone<br \/>\nWith a wind chill like an express train<br \/>\nThat gets into each bone<br \/>\nSnow coming down like crazy<br \/>\nBut a hunters heart within<br \/>\nWith the passion of invasion<br \/>\nAnd a mindset that can win<\/p>\n<p>What is such natural beauty<br \/>\nFar away from cities where<br \/>\nThis harmony doth exhilarate<br \/>\nAnd wipe away despair<br \/>\nOut there on a mountain<br \/>\nLooking for a bull<br \/>\nA moose who knows the vast terrain<br \/>\nJust a few can feel that pull<\/p>\n<p>That need to take out something<br \/>\nThat lives it&#8217;s whole life here<br \/>\nIn the bright tranquility<br \/>\nClearly without fear<br \/>\nHere was that bow hunter<br \/>\nHis fulfilment is the soul<br \/>\nHis weaponry an arrow<br \/>\nProving his control<\/p>\n<p>Proving He can beat the beast<br \/>\nIn his own territory<br \/>\nHe possesses the insentience<br \/>\nAnd the frigidity<br \/>\nA cold heart is the need up here<br \/>\nTo put aside the why<br \/>\nKilling such an animal<br \/>\nWatching the brute die<\/p>\n<p>Following its blood trail<br \/>\nThe ego is on fire<br \/>\nThe unconsciousness of Nature<br \/>\nAnd that spiritless desire<br \/>\nNot to share the experience<br \/>\nOf life and a camera where<br \/>\nTo tingle with the knowledge<br \/>\nYou have captured and can share<\/p>\n<p>A wild soul in its habitat<br \/>\nYou there to record its power<br \/>\nBut NO you had to end its days<br \/>\nDemonstrating really how<br \/>\nMorally insensitive and a lethargy of lust<br \/>\nAn insouciance and indifference<br \/>\nOf the living to its thrust<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s sensory perception<br \/>\nAnd spontaneity<br \/>\nOf expressing a shared effusiveness<br \/>\nFor Nature constantly<\/p>\n<p>NO just go out and murder<br \/>\nUse stealth and ugliness<br \/>\nAmbush bring in pain and woe<br \/>\nCreate such vile distress<br \/>\nWith no regard whatsoever<br \/>\nThe psychopathy just there<br \/>\nDeadened to another&#8217;s pain<br \/>\nTotally unaware<\/p>\n<p>All weeping and all wailing<br \/>\nSeemed refreshing to your ear<br \/>\nThe hunter feels the sublimity<br \/>\nThe charm to just be here<br \/>\nHis masterpiece is dead<br \/>\nhis prowess caused this soul<br \/>\nTo be lost and covered now in snow<br \/>\nThe puffery they dole<br \/>\nTheir swank a pair of braggarts<br \/>\nWho skin the hide away<br \/>\nWho steal whatever else they want<br \/>\nFrom their victim of the day<\/p>\n<p>Such arrogance such bluster<br \/>\nThe assurance they are kings<br \/>\nA cockiness and insolence<br \/>\nThat obviously now brings<br \/>\nIn the camera man or the poet<br \/>\nA humbleness to be<br \/>\nCapturing the spirit<br \/>\nWith complete courtesy<\/p>\n<p>To all hunters athletic or otherwise<br \/>\nYour mistake was living under the umbrella of death<br \/>\nFor Only creation can take away the lives of the innocent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being out in the wilderness All seeing and alone With a wind chill like an express train That gets into each bone Snow coming down like crazy But a hunters heart within With the passion of invasion And a mindset &hellip; 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