Friday, 22 December 2017

To All In Tents and Tortoises

A poem from 1985

when cold winds blow
and winter snow
meanders to the ground
in wispy
                fragrant fields
we pitched our tents
and made haste to camp under
the shelter of a great oak tree
this was not the kind of weather
suitable for our sport
but how can one refuse
a dare
when coming from such an obsolete fellow
as Arrogance?

In winters cold hell
the tortoise dwells
in
four walls
of a cardboard box
with straw for furniture
his tent on his back
propels the icy attack
of the snow that falls through
the air-holes in the lid

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