Neopoet

Join the Neopoet online poetry workshop and community to improve as a writer, meet fellow poets, and showcase your work. Sign up, submit your poetry, and get started.

jane210660
jane210660
Jun 26, 2016 ⭐ View statistics (Premium feature)
This poem is part of the contest:

June Contest - Choka - Japanese Poetry - $25 (USD) Amazon Emailed Gift Card

(Read More...)

Loved ewe two ways- June Competition

She stares heavenwards
head back, pale, milky eyes glazed.
Fifteen years ago
She escaped the abattoir
became a loved pet.
Now, in her summer pasture
death has finally caught up.

Head back and glazed eye
not for her this summer sky.
No more will she hear
her lambs' call or curlew's cry
I turn sadly round
and wipe the tears from my eyes
as I bid my last goodbyes.

About This Poem

Editing Stage: Editing - draft

About the Author

Region, Country: Yorkshire England, GBR

More from this author

Comments

Esker

Esker

9 years ago

Me I like the first!

having read all the sad stories of youth
Lassie...Black Beauty etc
Sounder...Old Yeller
always had pets

the inevitable
for all
the short run of it works

thank U!

R

raj

9 years ago

Hi Jane

Great Choka...you are up there with a chance to win this month's contest...good luck to you...

jane210660

jane210660

9 years ago

Hi Raj

Thanks for the comment. It's always interesting and fun to write in a style or have to conform to a genre that is outside 'the norm', especially for a freestyler like myself :-) Jxx

Rula

Rula

8 years 3 months ago

A poignant piece. I

A poignant piece. I especially like thd closing lines.
Wish you alwayz the best jane!