Tag: animals
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The Land
Badgered plants badge blasted heath Lawns quartered fence between Planned out like Battenburgs spans betwixt Many hands wild horses flank, tracked with speedslime Mother nature affixed in brumal beauty Afflicting heather abundant Smothering eggshell plumage covers ruins Broccoli tops jut out amongst rocks a was-roof consisted of In derelict barns owls like reapers on long-armed rafters…
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World Ocean Day
It’s world ocean day A world of motion Really we are a swaying water planet We are but risen skeins of sunken Atlantis This borrowed land, even its sand belongs to the seas Poseidon considers land a disease It is pleasing to him that his domain is earth’s surcease Tsunamis crease into apocalyptic things easily …
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Garden Foxes
Early just this morning I woke from sleep to see A fox stole from my garden the skull of a sheep Perhaps to Hamlet over, returned it to their keep A trench-veined garden allotment up the street In April and May, all night they scream and screech With child or for a mate, the fox…
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Zozimus
My ankles you haunt Cat what’re you Shouting about What could you want? You nose at my legs Tilting at shadows You nestle again. Lap you knead Unseen bread An unseen life Thoroughbred. Door you can open You will not open Scouring the rooms Someone to rope in. At dinner or not Wailing as if…
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Fly
Fly, are you even among your number heralded As one vigorous, swift, imperative. How dash thee to and fro just shy of my whip Educated wrist, slick; and yet you slip
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Spiders Dreams
My father made a pleasure dome in some mad Victorian fervour He began with plants and stones until it extended further and further Beyond crude palisades of hearty piled stones Near a pansy-shored meander, where a spider makes his home. ‘Tween mossy stone and cloudy bank in a web of gossamer spun This spider sits…