Dead fox laying on the road
A fleeting moment and now you're home
To me you're an analogy of the life we race
Living in an unnatural world all out of place
And then in one big hit you're gone and soon forgotten
The bright lights of life full of noise and confusion
We are all dead foxes just waiting to happen
Not knowing that how we live is a programmed illusion
Because we can't live in a world that denies our wits and intuition
Without being turned into a mindless
Automaton
With thoughts such as these I'd rather be a dead fox
At least now his spirit is no longer in knots
Dead fox laying on the road
A fleeting moment...... and then home we go
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Saxon Crow (
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- Comment from author about the poem: I did actually see a dead fox at the side of a very busy A road and it got me thinking how out of his natural environment foxes have become and then how out of touch we have become with our nature.......
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A fine write SC.
Erm, I saw one once on a country road. I took it to a nearby pub. Most embarrassing, as it was smelling by then, and I asked if they could bury it. They looked at me as if to say 'Doh! Why you bring that thing here?'
yeah, we who: bombarded no10
to stop the mindless hunting
with horses and guns;
then run them down
two at a time, with our cars
while cursing their existence
as merely a nuisance, to our privileged existence...
(of hypocrite duality
in our ever-fallible, humanity
you pen, my friend)
really well written
thanks for sharing, dear Poet
Usual great piece of writing, Sax.
The key is obviously embodied in the lines already quoted above – no need to repeat them.
I feel sometimes we are so removed from what could be our essential nature that there is no way back…perhaps. Or not….
There's a lot of meaning depth here. I also love how some of it appears as flashing scenes: "Dead fox laying on the road, a fleeting moment and now you're home" Totally maverick if you ask me. Captivating to say the least!
Such a good expression of the feebleness of life..... has shades of the Rubaiyat.....
Yes indeed dear poet. I take that onboard, we are all just dead foxes waiting to happen.
So I better get on with living a bit of life then!
Your piece contains a great positive 'kick up the arse' message today for most of us. Though the depressed among us will only acknowledge the negative which is so sad.
Wonderful words SC, I often see dead foxes along the road living very near the countryside.
People just do not seem to care about nature anymore and seem to just want to destroy it as in their lives many become that automaton.
Andy
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