Evolution+Poem

//__The Miracle of Archaeopteryx __// //__By Rachael Podtburg __//

//Once raptor, next bird, // //Leaving their grounded land life, // //A flight filled experience next. // //Still as small as ever, // //Crow sized to be exact. // //Keeping their tail, // //Their hollow bones, // //Their teeth, // //Their feet. // //Growing new feathers as rich as ever. // //She screeched, as a celebration, and the small mammals talked back. // //Screeching, squeaking, scratching to one another. //

//She takes off in the sun filled sky, // //Soaring past trees, // //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">And leaving her old problems to take on the new. // //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">She flaps her wings through the forest of tall slender trees. // //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Within a split second, // //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">She’s now dodging trees and trying to gain distance, // //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The skies turn dark gray, // //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The clouds steal the sunlight and shadows away. // //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">She screeched, as she noticed, and the small mammals talked back. // //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Screeching, squeaking, scratching to one another. //

//<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The tan beast was gaining on the small bird, // //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The chaser screeches at her, // //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">She returns the call. // //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The winds speed up, // //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The trees sway back and forth, // //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Creaking as they wobble. // //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Creating new obstacles as it grew out of the old ones. // //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">She flies through the trees, // //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Not blending in at all. // //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Her bright colored feathers against the dark green needles. // //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">She got chased by the chaser, // //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Closer and closer to the ground. // //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">She screeched, as a warning, and the small mammals talked back. // //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Screeching, squeaking, scratching to one another. //

//<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Why was she running? // //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Who was chasing? // //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">What will happen to her? //

//<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">After all of the suspense, // //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">All of the fright, // //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">All of the worries. // //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">One thing comes to her rescue //

//<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">She looked to the sky, // //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">hearing the sound of a large, crackling fire, // //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Still being chased, // //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">She heads to her burrow, // //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">And little did she know, // //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">That one decision saved her life. // //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">One, two, three hours went by, // //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Heat flying at her face and body as she protected her young. // //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Large flames tried // //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Oh, they tried to fry her up, // //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">But she ducked deeper inside her burrow and the heat cooled down. // //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">She screeched, worried as ever, and the small mammals talked back. // //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Screeching, squeaking, scratching to one another. //

//<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Finally, // //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">After three hours of torture, // //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">She, and her young were safe. // //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">She crept out of her hole, // //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Everything was burned, // //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Trees, dinosaurs, all obstacles that she had faced before, // //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Gone, all gone. // //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Her food source? // //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Still there. // //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Insects, bugs, anything small, // //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">All still alive, so she was still alive. // //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">She screeched, being alive and free, and the small mammals talked back. // //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Screeching, squeaking, scratching to one another. //

//<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">She was the first, // //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">But not the last. // //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Other small mammals joined her. // //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Up on the charred surface. // //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">She screeched and the small mammals talked back. // //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Screeching, squeaking, scratching to one another. //

//<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">“Multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.” -Charles Darwin //

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