Random Poetry Challenge Day 11 Dead Fox
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Dead fox runs
by the side of the road.
Wild geese fly as
fat ducks float
on a silvery dam.
Glinting light
sparkles on watery surfaces
where grey gums gather,
protectively
to edge
the tiny pocket of calm.
Pregnant sheep
With groaning bellies
Drop fat white lambs.
Cows rhythmically chew
their collective cud,
and view their mates
domestically.
On high above the road,
Koalas munch
On grey green leaves
In a haven
Of petrol fumes and bitumen.
Inside the township limits
Kangaroos bunch together
to strip the feed
in a farmer’s field.
A rogue outside the fence.
Emerald grass
Green velvet
Reflects the dying light
Of the sunset in the glen.
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This Poem is my answer to the Day 11 of the Random Poetry Challenge
"Colours in Joy"
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Thanks Just Rodney - Is this poet from your country? I have not read him/her but will look on google....it seems we could be on a similar wave length...cheers
ps how is goompy?
If you Google Just_Rodney, you will find, he also appears on hubpages, yes he is is from my country.
Goompy is alive and well and living the life of riley, really, he is spoilt. We are parrot sitting another ring neck and he is still not sure about her, it will only have been a week on wednesday, so early days.
Keep well
This is cool. Really sort of takes me there. Sounds very pastoral and...green--that's what I see as the main color. Almost like it could be anywhere--but then you mention the Koalas! That would be weird to have Koalas in your backyard--but then I suppose it is normal for you (?)
I also like the 'glinting' and grey tones.
Thanks Just Rodney - I will indeed gogle him/her and read the work - Is Goompy & Just Rodney hoping for little Goompys? cheers
Thank you Lita - we don't actually have as many koalas as we are meant to - they are being wiped out by a koala form of chalmydia (?) - but how I have written them into the verse is as it used to be when I was a child! very sad really... and i guess it could be a pastoral scene anywhere except for the mention of the the koalas and the kangaroos...I was trying to capture the evening colours plus at the very begining of the poem with the dead fox running - that picture was one of roadkill from a moving car....cheers and thanks again
Hard to say but as they are still juvenile, a long time off. We need to see, however trying to remain detached as would love the idea of being balanced with a parrot on each shoulder.
Keep well
Twins - maybe one of each - is this type bird prone to eating its' own eggs - a yucky question I know but Ihave heard of it happening!
goodluck with this most natural of projects!!! cheers
Time will tell, but the baby stitting gig will end soon, she will go back to her mommy.
However we have booked a yellow ring neck from the same place as oompy, will wait till late august for that one.
How did you fare in the fires?
Take care
Ah but will she go back with more than she came with Just_Rodney? (Goompy's babies) I guess only time will tell - and there is always tomorrow...
re the fires - the worst in our history ever - over 200 people dead now - but the police are really out and about looking for those bastard arsonists...we are in NSW and not in the actual fire zones - unlike poor ag and earnest/Victoria. There are fires being lit in here in NSW with closest being in Tumut which is an hour and a half away from us - but in the main they are up in the central coast and appear to be under control and the weather is cooler today....thanks for asking ....cheers
Have to worry about friends we have, glad your ok new ag was also an Oz, dont know earnet/viictiria.
But we in South Africa also had a spate of arsonists doing their thing in the Cape peninsula recently, if my memory serves me correctly, in the one instance it was a tourist who started one on Table Mountain Cape Town.
This seems to be a new tendency to go around and just destroy property and creaqte damage and suffering.
Just Rodney I don't believe that I approved and didn't answer - how rude of me - I must have been burning the finner or something! they have actually arrested a number of arsonists on Victoria so i hope they throw the book/s at them...cheers
ps is goompy going to be a Dad?
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Just_Rodney says:
11 months ago
Great one Aj, a "beutie"
The drought has been broken
Solid outcrops granite and quartz
Stand sentinel
The highway
in a broad strip
greasy grey
meanders through
this man made cutting.
The rocks
weep
in vain
to wash away
the waste
from cars and trucks
billowing clouds behind them
leaving
coal black
modern graffiti
a declaration
to
our superiority.
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