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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THEIR LAST STAND, by DONA WAYLAND
First Line: Peering tensely with naked curiosity
Last Line: Hunted -- they take their last stand.
Subject(s): Mustangs
First Line: Peering tensely with naked curiosity
Last Line: Hunted -- they take their last stand.
Subject(s): Mustangs
Peering tensely with naked curiosity
They wander high among the hills,
Mustangs, the last of a race rapidly vanishing ...
Clouds blown through the great crossways
In endless procession above their heads.
Plunderers -- doomed to extinction.
Majestic, free they speed over the horizon,
Up the dried lava streams,
Shadows that travel far
Among a duel of opposing forces.
Upon the mountain top,
Watching the guarded places,
Listening to whispers of the forest,
Hunted -- they take their last stand.
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