mole

by Ann Foxglove

Friday 3rd December 2010 8:31 am

I am so low.

Maybe I can join the moles

in their happy unambitious explorations?

Little mole, inglorious,

humble creature

let me join you in the earth.

We can be blots on the landscape

leaving air and light

preferring to stay

safely out of sight.

Dispel all grief

with our repetitious toil.

If I could join you,

I could dig deeper

deeper deeper deeper.

Deeper than any mole has ever been.

The centre of the earth would not be

deep enough for me.

And in the earth’s core heart

my bones would still be cold as loneliness.

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Ann Foxglove

Fri 3rd Dec 2010 20:17

Core what? Core Blimey??

<Deleted User> (7212)

Fri 3rd Dec 2010 20:15

Core !

winston plowes

Fri 3rd Dec 2010 15:09

well I am struggling on the frozen canal. Water run out. burst pipe, blocked chimney. ice on the inside of my windows, You have got it easy in your burrow! Mr grumpy :-(

P.S. Nice poem... i suppose,
well actually, very nice. harumph

Cynthia Buell Thomas

Fri 3rd Dec 2010 11:05

Not flooded out, but snowed in? The 'dismals' do have their charm though, as you have aptly demonstrated. I always enjoy your empathy with the natural world around you. But I would never have thought a mole 'unambitious'. And I think you should stop talking about being 'old'; you'll soon convince us irrevocably.

Ann Foxglove

Fri 3rd Dec 2010 10:03

Yes, I know the earth's core is hot (although has anyone been there to find out? Maybe Prof. Challenger). The point I was making was that EVEN at the earth's core my bones would STILL be cold as loneliness. You See? xxxx

Dave Bradley

Fri 3rd Dec 2010 10:00

Sympathy, Ann. Liked this. The centre of the earth is apparently hotter than the surface of the sun so you and your moles will fry I'm afraid (Sorry, just read Bill Bryson's Short History of Nearly Everything and so am full of that sort of information)

Thanks for troubling with Where Are You. Bit of an inaccessible one really. x

<Deleted User> (8672)

Fri 3rd Dec 2010 09:32

Like this a lot, especially 'dispel all grief with our repetitious toil.' I must say this time of year gets to me. Thank God November's out of the way. I don't know what it's like in Cornwall but if the weather continues like this, I'm going to hibernate. Bring on the moles! (They don't hibernate, do they?).

Ann Foxglove

Fri 3rd Dec 2010 08:29

Yeh! Roll on death! ;-) (Got cabin fever - living on tins and toast like a little old lady*, no one but a geriatric cat to talk to, haven't been out for a walk for a week! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!) *Which of course I am! Or a medium sized one!

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