Today’s host of #VerseLove at http://www.ethicalela.com is Wendy Everard of New York, who inspires us to research our favorite writers’ places and our own favorites, and to write a poem inspired by that place. She wrote her poem as she walked around Emily Dickinson’s home and gardens.
The Funny Farm
give me outdoors
on a bright, cloudy farm
one that's just a slant off
from the normal farm's charm
where the dogs think they're people
and there's no chimney-steeple
where the roosters don't stop -
they crow 'round the clock
and the cats are all blind
(confused mice think them kind)
where the pigs all stay clean
but the John Deere stays green
and the fig-pickin's plenty
and the fence posts are denty
and we grow winter corn
once the goats' wool is shorn
and the rabbits stay single
'cause they don't like to.....mingle.....
and the cows oom
(not moo, like all other cows do)
and the deer never scare
they just stand there and stare
and the farmer wears oil rags
returns new clothes with price tags
wears his straw hat with holes
'cause he's got backwoods goals
and he can't eat no sausage
but it's really no loss-age
they just go out for dinner
(and for her, that's a winner!)
on this farm that's quite funny,
sipping coffee with honey
give me outdoors
on a bright, cloudy farm
one that's just a slant off
from the normal farm's charm
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