I dislike litterers
I see them, the cow-like chewers
Always spilling and always littering
How can these large lifers be so reckless
The environment is helpless
I see them smear the earth
They are guilty of chocking their own breathe
They are litterbugs that deserve a nosebag
With jaws incessantly grinding
Munching and crunching
In my mind I am punching
In my mind I am emptying a bin of refuge on their heads
In my mind I am tattooing a recycle sign of their foreheads
Their mindset needs a reprocess
Litterers give me so much distress
MORNING DEPARTURE
Yellow glow in the east
And daisies spread their petals.
I too shrug off the darkness
Which all around me settles.
The white rays greet me
As I struggle with the load,
And harness up the horse
To ready us for our road.
He nods his head in the nosebag;
Daisies nod ‘neath the stile;
I have no fellow traveller
To nod with me a while.
Plunked down in chaos
from a gentler time,
blinkered from the traffic
he pulls the coach along.
Patient, in his harness bond
he tugs at hearts, with pathos-
as to his love of duty we respond.
Amidst the screech of sirens
and the blasting horns,
he stands and dreams
of meadows in a nosebag.
Such rhythmic clicking of
metal shoes on concrete,
full rolling of the carriage
wheels and he, confined,
down through the centuries
he thought he'd left behind.
Eco Thunder
Got me horse on the footpath ,
Old Thunder ain’t lightening quick,
Keeps me lawn a mowing down,
And leaves me them manura bricks.
Has his nosebag chaff n oats,
Oats for power is the trick,
Good company in the house,
Chomped the rug a little bit.
Have me Aussie Kneepad saddle,
Pads to keep you in a bit.
Don’t need protection, horse on guard ,
To kick n bite and strike halfwits.
Cheap to run at half a gallop,
Don’t jig jog the natural gait,
Aussie horses walk ,trot, canter,
Less kidney trouble old mate.
Horses had homing control,
Took the drunkards home with care,
If you got lost in the horse paddock,
Let him take you home ,
yes you’d get there.
Robb A. Kopp
Contest Name Eco-friendly Vehicles
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