Gone to Ground

Cherry

By Silver Spun Sand

Tue, 15 Apr 2014
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Could it have been the one, lived 
beneath the conifer, just outside
the kitchen window... or maybe 
the one ate the tops off your radish plants, 
you’d so carefully set the night before?
 
Or was it the one I saw that morning,
when the sun had just come up, behind 
a clump of dagger-red dogwood, watching
its young leave their warren for the very first time;
scatter – pell-mell across an ox-eye daisy
spotted lawn?
 
Oh, and do you recall that man, many years
ago now – wept all the way home from the vets – 
buried our dog...Jess, by the walnut tree; told
our kids he’d gone to a better place and that god 
would cure his arthritis...take his pain away?
 
If you do, and if you should bump into him,
again, by chance, maybe you’d ask him 
if the same applies to grey squirrels, stoats, 
mink, brown rats...and a rabbit; its brains 
blown out?  Trouble is, though...I doubt 
he’d remember you.
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Comments

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

I felt an air of mystery in this poem Tina.  I loved that second stanza...definitely my favourite, I had this picture in my mind of all these sweet little baby bunnies leaving the warren for the first time and scattering across the lawn.

A fine poem in deed.

Jenny.  smiley

 

Submitted by Silver Spun Sand on

Thank you, Jenny.  Hunting, close to my heart.  And those sweet little bunnies sure don't live long round here, not in this neck of the woods, unfortunately.  Yes, I get upset when they nibble my lettuces  and spring bulbs, but I look at it from the stance that they were probably here, on this planet of ours, way before I was, so, in a way it is I who is the intruder into their world, and not the other way round..

Tina

 

 

 

Submitted by Bee on

Hi Tina.

I like the way you manage to get all the beauty of nature in and that last verse is sudden and quite blunt. It really packs a punch. Well done!

Bee

Submitted by Silver Spun Sand on

Thanks, Bee, for reading, and for letting me know it worked for yousmiley

Tina

 

Submitted by Ray Schaufeld on

it worked well for me too                Elsie

Submitted by Silver Spun Sand on

Ta, elsie...muchly.

Tina