Short Roebuck Poems

settling in forests
deer* and doe freely flourish...
soon, their antlers nailed

*Deuteronomy 14:5 The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.

April 11, 2022
4th place, "Wild Animal Haiku" Poetry Writing Contest
Sponsored by Tania Kitchin; judged on 4/18/2022....

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French was the international language
    Brittania ruled the waves
  Sears-Roebuck a retail behemoth
    American Indians still called braves

  China an enigma wrapped in a riddle
    The U.S. in a major depression
  Germany'd elected a bar-room brawler
    A dangerous, goose-stepping hessian...

  Looking back, it's quite surreal
    Looking ahead, hard to get a feel
  Don't know if it's all real or illusion ~
    Or ends from the fallout of nuclear fusion...

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Mary, Mary

Mary, Mary, where yall be
Behind the shed I see
Sitting on a bucket
Two shakes and blow
Snakes eyes rolls

Mary, Mary, where yall  be
Gosh darn, dang it
Wrestling with Billy
over a piece of watermelon
One lick to the eye
cheek swell , black eye

Mary, Mary, where yall  be
I havn’t got a lick of work out of yall
dern tootin,  when I gits yall ,
Yall find yourself in a heap of trouble
Yall britches won’t have
a Sears and  Roebuck book

© Eve Roper 4/21/2015...

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