A Day Out in The Country
The uniformity of the green field
from my window ..
Though still predominantly green,
was interrupted
here and there, by random smears
of the deepest
crimson imaginable and which in
turn, reminded
me of an old Goethe masterpiece,
or Passchendaele ..
Tho’ on closer inspection, through
my inherited pair
of old, world war one, field glasses ..
I could just make
out the remains of at least a dozen
stillborn lambs ..
Each rendered lifeless, by a single
over-excited dog,
a mixed flock of corvids and three
opportunistic gulls ..
I also noticed, that the previously
well displayed sign,
requesting all dogs, be kept on their
leads during
lambing season, had been destroyed
and was evidently
ignored by hordes of tourists from
the big city who
were seemingly just out for a day’s jolly ..
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Author:
Neville (
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- Comment from author about the poem: I don't blame the dog ..
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Comments8
Buggered up nicely by mass tourism...It's everywhere. Your argument, so rich in detail is enough evidence to send them into the desert (trying to avoid thoughts of execution).
A good ‘un Neville.
Cheers Dave .. it does make me cross & ever so .. thanks again Neville
Good write N.
Was we - you and I - at Passchendaele in person? Are you quite old? Was we in the Boers Wars too?!
Thanks for mucking out Orchidee, slurry you are still confused ., N
Fido will bark if I don't tone down this comment. Tone down that word 'muck', he says.
Yes, countryside all fine, then man comes along and 'mucks' it up. Doh!
It is so sad and disgusting that people let there dogs loose when lambs are around Neville.
Andy
It’s bloomin disgraceful thanks for coming on board ☹️👍
Thats really unfortunate that people would let their dogs loose like that! A really good write on an awful subject!
This dreadful what some folks allow.. thanks C .. I owe ya 😎🍒👍
Sadly wealth can not get you common sense! Even when some try and get it of me they blame the dog and waste money.. fantastic write and with you all the way! The hardest part of living can be just understanding why others do what they do! So narrow minded we can only hope their DNA doesn't keep getting remastered... lol
Cheers mate
It seems like we are in this together mate maybe if we close our eyes and hold on tight we might get through it .. in the meantime, thanks greatly .. Neville
I live in a tourist town myself. Great writing. I relate.
The dogs are everywhere .. Cheers Thomas .. N
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