Friday, 25 February 2022

NIGHT'S VAGARIES: A NEW BADGER POEM...

 Night’s Vagaries…



The wind-battered copse

In dusk’s pervasion cold

Lies strewn with the debris

Of crooked limbs, awry,

Blown from trees by recent storms’ cruel ire.


The phantom robin hops

In winter’s invasion bold

Amongst the damp, dun debris

Of rotting leaves nearby,

Snatched from branches by harsh gales dire.


The tentative badger stops

In February’s chill untold

And snuffles at the loose debris

For any food morsels dry,

  Hidden by night’s vagaries in rain-sodden mire…


Pete Ray

25th February 2022…



Cold, windy but one badger ate the scattered food near its sett.



Many branches had fallen from nearby trees and one had almost blocked an entrance to a sett…


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