A cinquain for Colleen Chesebro’s Tanka Tuesday challenge.
Worms dig
the cold earth moles
badgers delve unhurried
galleries in the eternal
darkness.
Dig and delve
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A cinquain for Colleen Chesebro’s Tanka Tuesday challenge.
Worms dig
the cold earth moles
badgers delve unhurried
galleries in the eternal
darkness.
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You had your up before I had even seen the prompt. I like the image of the badgers dark galleries. (More eeriness–this relates to a prompt I’m thinking of for dVerse for next week.) 🙂
There was a dead badger in the ditch by the side of the lane yesterday. Hard to believe it was hit by a car as there’s no traffic on the lane at night and cars go slowly because it’s very narrow and winding.
Poor badger. 😦
80% of their diet is earthworms but they’re counted as pests. Fair game.
😦
“Wind in the Willows” has always made me feel kindly towards badgers and moles. The galleries fit right into the book too. (K)
They are completely inoffensive, industrious creatures and they are persecuted by people with lawns.
Lawns…a curse on humanity.
I’m so pleased you think so too. I tend to judge people by whether they have lawns or a garden. If it’s a bit of green to set off the trees and flowers, fair enough, but when it replaces nature, drinks buckets of herbicide and pesticide, I say there’s something gone wrong somewhere.
Yes…”manicured”–what an absurd idea! So American though.
If it started as an American idea it’s been adopted everywhere. More’s the pity.
Jane, this is such a great representation of the darkness of winter. “Galleries in the eternal darkness…” what a great image I have in mind from your words. ❤
Thanks Colleen. I imagine all the animals that burrow going down deeper and deeper as it gets colder.
I think that’s a fact, Jane. It’s like that Hygge lifestyle from the Danish. They know how to survive winter. LOL!
I’d love one of their big stoves 🙂
Ohhhh, cozy! Our downstairs is cold. We bought an electric fireplace in a stand that holds our TV. I can’t live without that darn thing! LOL! ❤