{"id":32964,"date":"2017-04-30T09:27:32","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T09:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=32964"},"modified":"2017-06-15T09:57:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T09:57:07","slug":"child-of-the-wilderness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/04\/child-of-the-wilderness\/","title":{"rendered":"Child of the wilderness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A powerful kind of critter<br \/>\nLikened to a machine<br \/>\n30pounds of muscle<br \/>\nKnown as the wolverine<br \/>\nA great survivability<br \/>\nWith endurance and such grit<br \/>\nLoves the Northern Wilderness<br \/>\nFor me they are a hit<\/p>\n<p>Supremely wild and mystical<br \/>\nA phantom in the snow<br \/>\nVigorous and mighty<br \/>\nA weasel that does grow<br \/>\nMighty and real genuine<br \/>\nWith a lot of attitude<br \/>\nReally loves the winter<br \/>\nWith a bite thats very crude<\/p>\n<p>Guts so often full of bones<br \/>\nAs any guts around today<br \/>\nThey crush and swallow anything<br \/>\nThat just gets in their way<br \/>\nAn avalanche may take a goat<br \/>\nOr even a great big moose<br \/>\nBut these tearaways<br \/>\nWill consume them<br \/>\nAnd turn them into juice<\/p>\n<p>Created from a rugged block<br \/>\nWith bags of real resolve<br \/>\nRed blooded and abled<br \/>\nThings seem to revolve<br \/>\nAround their quest for action<br \/>\nBrawny wirey brave<br \/>\nThey reign supreme<br \/>\nAnd are just so mean<br \/>\nTumblers that save<\/p>\n<p>Themselves they run like crazy<br \/>\nFur draped everywhere<br \/>\nFantastic insulation<br \/>\nThey are so aware<br \/>\nOf being in the now<br \/>\nWhen winds are savage in the sky<br \/>\nBlowing like the clappers<br \/>\nThese critters watch them fly<\/p>\n<p>Up a snowy incline<br \/>\nA capacity<br \/>\nTo chase down any creature<br \/>\nIf they are hungry<br \/>\nNothing stands an earthly<br \/>\nTheir bio-energy<br \/>\nIs forceful and compulsive<br \/>\nAnd unassailable they be<\/p>\n<p>From Alaska to SIberia<br \/>\nThe gauntlet they do run<br \/>\nThey are just amazing animals<br \/>\nWhen the day is done<br \/>\nNothing really frightens them<br \/>\nNot even the grizzly who<br \/>\nWould  probably run the other way<br \/>\nThan take on one or two<\/p>\n<p>They love the rocky reaches<br \/>\nIts where they are trapped for fur<br \/>\nIn the bleakest vistas<br \/>\nSomeone might see a star<br \/>\nPerformers really motoring<br \/>\nThrough the ice and snow<br \/>\nWith all the fizz and wonder<br \/>\nAnd all the natural glow<\/p>\n<p>A neanderthal among souls<br \/>\nAn executioner<br \/>\nClimbing jumping crudely pumping<br \/>\nPhantoms as they were<br \/>\nThe open space and wide terrain<br \/>\nAt 20 miles per day<br \/>\nRunning like they never want to stop<br \/>\nThey are away<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of any other<br \/>\nAnd constant when you see<br \/>\nThey know where the deep den sites are<br \/>\nFor its where they like to be<br \/>\nThe freedom of existence<br \/>\nFrom the summit to the low<br \/>\nGun brushes put on camera poles<br \/>\nTo help record and know<br \/>\nWhere the woolly wolverines are<br \/>\nAnd where they go<br \/>\nAnd how brave they are at killing<br \/>\nAnd just where they might show<\/p>\n<p>The Vancouver Island Wolverines  (Gulo gulo)are<br \/>\nConsidered extinct.<br \/>\nLargest ancestor of the Weasel family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A powerful kind of critter Likened to a machine 30pounds of muscle Known as the wolverine A great survivability With endurance and such grit Loves the Northern Wilderness For me they are a hit Supremely wild and mystical A phantom &hellip; 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