Thansk Sally, I wondered about crap, it felt right to me as a colloquial
remarmk - a way of saying the point of view was absolute rubbish., But I did
wonder, especially with international readers. I'll find a way round it.,
cheers
SallyE
on 14/2/06 8:16 am, Sally James at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> I really like this Sally it means a lot on religious and health food issues.
> Just not so sure about the last verse though. "Crap" grinds a bit on my mind
> as does "plastic roads" I know what you are saying but for me these words
> don't quite fit. Bw Sally J
>> From: sally evans <[log in to unmask]>
>> Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: New Poem: the vegetable lamb
>> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 02:03:26 +0000
>>
>> The vegetable lamb
>>
>> A tiny toylike lamb
>> was said to grow
>> on leaves and roots
>> to open in a pod
>> of lanolined wood
>> to grow and feed
>> provide white wool
>> fine filigree.
>>
>> Geese born from barnacles
>> would recognise
>> this story. Others knew
>> it foolish, and in time
>> it ceased to interest
>> even religious minds
>> and dropped out
>> of our mythology.
>>
>> But there are left
>> here and there
>> drawings and images -
>> cotton-like plant
>> a budded womb
>> a lamb like those
>> of sacrifice,
>> haloes and blood.
>>
>> In our current state
>> we cannot interpret,
>> we do not believe
>> that sort of crap
>> but in our superstitious
>> brains, plastic roads
>> instead lead us to
>> graveyards of fridges.
>>
>> Sally Evans
|