Monday, 19 July 2021

AND ME... AND ME... (BADGERS FEEDING...)

 And Me… And Me…



Gold shimmered and glimmered within the glade,  

Amber upon the contrasting evening shade.

And badgers were huddled within their sett…  


Water replenished,

Peanuts scattered

And I leaned against a tree, 

A knot in the bark pressed

Harshly into an arm, whilst I stressed

About the badgers’ emergence in the silence,

And the oppressive heat, which tarnished

The onset of dusk, for distancing mattered…


Gold slithered and withered within the glade,

Umber upon the darkening evening shade.

And badgers soon waddled from within their sett…


Quite unabashed,

Eager, unfettered,

One cub rushed: “And me… And me…”

It seemed to say, stressing,

Shoving into the crowd and pressing

Into the foraging confluence

And the depressive heat, yet it ravaged

The offerings which maybe only earthworms bettered…


Pete Ray

19th July (Mask-wearing Freedom Day…)



One cub usually rushes from the sett as if it might miss something, barging into the group feeding on peanuts…





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