above the field the hero-maker
exercises leadership inspired
massing forces across the vale
with support in plenty provided

the gunsmiths make the guns
the gun-handlers pass weapons along
the gun-runners deliver them
to gunners firing on song

on the field the trap-maker
casts nets and snares wide
able-bodies and deft-hands ready
to relieve the fallen and retired

the charging-mob is subdued
by strategy and power
out-flanked and out-thought
they charge prop then cower

injector-darts hit each target
unconscious they drop and fall
collected quickly from the field
be-gathered one and all

each beast is agentle-laid
weighed and length measured 
teeth and health are checked
body-secured then tethered

bio-tags are clipped to ears
before the waking beasts astir
safe-release is carefully planned
returned unharmed to where they were

across the remnant-wilderness
against disease and deceit
conservation-heroes monitor life 
resisting extinction and defeat

Today’s dVerse prompt is from Bjorn to use “kennings” or new compound words to create meaning in a poem as a way to continue the evolution of language. 

Poetry days #37

All work is my own and subject to copyright. I do not use AI. I do not want AI to use my work.