Yack yarns

You can find more poetry on The Totton linnet pages and also some fun short, true lifers.
Read about how me and my cousin managed to rassle up a swarm of “cavalier” wasps with our “parliamentary ” pike
Whang’a’wasp http://gentledove.wordpress.com/yack-2

City girl when I got chased by a billy goat

http://gentledove.wordpress.com/yack3  
Plus my days as a schoolie on work experience.

http://gentledove.wordpress.com/yack-4

Over the transom

 Eyes above the transom
stood upon her chair,
looking out over the garden
where just last night, she is sure,
were pixies and fairies bright.
And over there elves counselled with Oberon.
 Now pixies are buttercups, fairies daisies.
Where the elf king had sat, a dandelion.
Dandelion, dandy, LION!
startled, she hears a roar
she jumps down with a cry of alarm
“Mummy help! there is a lion outside [...]

Netley shore

The following is an extract from Damson jam http://gentledove2.wordpress.com/damson-jam
Moonlight shadow, moonlight shadow
I don’t want to be mantled with you
cold and unfriendly as you are,
chilled with the midnight dew.
I want to have a sunbeam
clothed upon my shoulder
little sis will hide her face
unless loving arms enfold her.
We were sitting on a towel
down on Netley shore
eating bread and damson jam
harking [...]

Susie’s Rag Doll

Do you remember
how you used to fold me?
 so close to your heart
as you were falling asleep.
The secrets that you told me
your deepest feelings, dreams,
memories of you that I will keep
to remind you when you hold me.
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by  The Totton linnet

Totton linnet

 
 It’s never too far to go
 to Totton on a sigh
there among the copses
 meadow marshes nearby.
Linnet makes her home there
in the hedgerow
her cock is handsome of breast and crown
with the voice of a flute you know.
It was there I heard the morning
say “welcome to my day”
and showed me where to look and find
the One whose thoughts hold [...]