The Cow In The Garden

[Heather]

Last one for the year. True story.


Enjoy your New Year BBQs everyone!

[Maureen K Clifford]

How could you She loved you, just wanted to be close and left her gifts to replenish your gardens soil. Oh Willow, poor Willow.....

[Heather]

I'm sure she went to a good home Maureen - she was ripe for breeding. God help whoever bought her she was a bitch of a cow.

[Neville Briggs]

I like it. Well done Heather, straight to the point and good concise wording

She's gone to a far, far better place

[Cropduster]

Not sure if it was Willow's rump for dinner I just ate
But it was thick, and it was juicy, and it hung over the plate.



Happy New Year

[Heather]

Thanks Neville, it's old one brought to life and I had a bit of fun writing it. Got to go back and fix the glitch now I know it is there though - and the metre changes (did I get away with that?) because I had several original ideas and liked the ending and couldn't ditch it.

Probably not Allan - she'd be getting bit old by now!

Heather

[Neville Briggs]

There's nothing to " get away with " as if you did something wrong. It works fine. As far as I know there is no poetic "rule" that says you can't vary the verse for effect. So I guess it depends on whether any variation looks like a mistake or a deliberate effect. This doesn't look like a mistake to me.

[Heather]

Quite deliberate Neville, quite deliberate and nice to have a bit of writing time. I'm going through some old ideas and notes and trying to squeeze something out of them. I kept thinking of Kym as I wrote this one as I know she would have made a 20 stanza rollicking yarn out of this one - but I'm too lazy!