Long Stoat Poems

Stars fall under failing skies...stars fall...stars fall...
And sadly...i start to drive.
Through the unremarkable village with its tall 
Georgian Bay window panes, lightless,
devoid of visages; outwardly staring back at my 
Abject countenance with detached contempt and...

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The grey mists of a sleeping dawn, cosetting birds still
wrapped up warm in bed, watch a stoat emerge from
its burrow and sprint across his meadow, like a caterpillar
making humped back bridges in Concertina motion

The stoat...

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The night in July was quietly chanting,
Its own lullaby, as if it was granting,
A sleep without trouble to people of Trees.

And all of a sudden a cry broke the peace,
From one of the houses, a...

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Timothy shivered as the evening cooled,
he pulled tighter on his little coat.
Suddenly, right in front of him stood
his arch enemy - the Stoat.

The Stoat circled Timothy,who, shivering on the ground,
tried playing 'dead' on his back.
"Nice...

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In a clearing, in the deep, dark wood, 
there appeared a pile of rocks.
Atop of which, eyeing this motley crew,
sat none other than Mr Fox.

"What have we here?" He said with a sneer,
"A Crow playing...

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Hand in hand they meander through  the deserted lane, 
freshly fallen snow crumpling under foot 
Littering the sky, Bright stars,  glittering like coins on a belly dancers belt,
slowly surrender to the coming dawn


Inch...

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Let’s go said the crow
Not now said the cow
But when said the hen
Don’t know said the doe
Hey look said the rook
Big truck said the duck
Go peep said the sheep
Not me said the bee

We’re there said...

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[the Egyptians are extremely interesting to us today
for various reasons.  How science today wishes to 
understand the secret ingredients where that the Egyptians 
used when they wrapped up dead people so that their faces...

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The underlulating flight of a caterpillar in mismatched socks could well be confused for a cyber created calorie called counter. Counters are calamities and calamities are neither calm nor chaotic. The robotic maneuverings' of a...

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When the snout of lush abundance is full and flowing,
when all prey and creature-kind spill upon the verdant swards,
then it is that I worry night and day,
for the stoat, fox and hawk are at work,
they...

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The little Elf
All by himself
Was dancing in the wood
He was gloriously happy
As Elfin folk should be
Surrounded by nature
In all its majesty
As the little Elf was dancing
He began to sing
He sang very softly
As there wasn't much...

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before the beginning,
aches burnt slow fuses 
in blood shrapnel'd fog, 
salted feet tread spattered rain, 
as men held spent while veiled mothers wept; 

growth rings sat lonely on soot tarnished walls, 
regrets wrung young necks...

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We were bobbing on the ocean in our tiny pea green boat
The pussycat, the owl and me were many days afloat
With hunger in the belly and a dryness in the throat
The owl winked at the...

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Gabriel



Enter!   Step across the threshold
unto a haunted house.
There’s tricky, tricky vermin here, 
ssshhh !    Tread carefully like a mouse.

Heathens  satyrs ,
bragging lazy waiters,
filthy filthy rats, large red cats.
A bully...

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last Autumn colours -
lost in winter snow.

twin vapour trails
on sky November blue,
Canada geese in formation-
head south.

November sombre,December dark,
January,February cold and stark
Rain filled days of slush and muck,
webs on shards of gossamer shade
'til snowdrops matamorphise in...

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Sitting in the shade of a willow tree
Reading, relaxing, enjoying the day
When, in the corner of my eye, I see
Soft shadows shifting and watch a stoat sway

Not moving a muscle, nerves all on edge
My eyes...

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NATURE’S CHAIN

a thick mist blankets the winter dawn---
                       necklaced jewels bedeck the hedge,...

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Fox So Brave

Fox so brave in the daylight air,
No people around, he doesn't care.
Elusive creatures come out to play,
No human predators spoiling their day.
Air smells sweet, less carbon, less diesel,
Foot of my garden, Stoat plays...

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Who are you?
     Kangaroo
What do you do?
     Kangaroo
You don't moo
     Kangaroo
You're not a cow
     Kangaroo
Or a sow
  ...

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>I once had an onion
And he was very bad
Kept kicking all the apples
Made them very mad
He once stole a monkey
Then sold it to a stoat
He borrowed someone's hamster
And threw it in a moat
Climbing up a...

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