{"id":63524,"date":"2024-05-26T10:46:12","date_gmt":"2024-05-26T10:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=63524"},"modified":"2024-05-26T11:17:24","modified_gmt":"2024-05-26T11:17:24","slug":"fox-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2024\/05\/fox-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They are a worldliness<br \/>\nA true incarnation<br \/>\nWild as the winds<br \/>\nThat can blow<br \/>\nWith a notion<br \/>\nTo call on the cosmos<br \/>\nIn so many ways<br \/>\nHeavenly bodies<br \/>\nWho won\u2019t stop to amaze<\/p>\n<p>Anointed with wisdom<br \/>\nVital and true<br \/>\nLiving in Gods earth<br \/>\nMortal all through<br \/>\nUp against monsters<br \/>\nThe hunting brigade<br \/>\nAll pumped with ego<br \/>\nAnd pink lemonade<\/p>\n<p>Intoxication<br \/>\nAnd hearts tough as wood<br \/>\nRiding and kicking their horses<br \/>\nNot good<br \/>\nWe need more of them<br \/>\nTo be thrown in the mud<br \/>\nTarnished with funghi<br \/>\nAnd leaking their blood<\/p>\n<p>A day to remember<br \/>\nThe foxes who run<br \/>\nThe forested paths<br \/>\nAware of the gun<br \/>\nOf the ignorant squirrel men<br \/>\nTerriers too<br \/>\nTrained up to murder<br \/>\nIt\u2019s what they do<\/p>\n<p>The smell of the trees<br \/>\nOf the cover grass where<br \/>\nMany a fox will run<br \/>\nSo aware<br \/>\nOf the stench that is following<br \/>\nThe galloping breed<br \/>\nWhipping and gripping<br \/>\nAnd nipping at speed<\/p>\n<p>Insensitive creeps<br \/>\nOblivious too<br \/>\nWhat foxes can pick up<br \/>\nOn the morning dew<br \/>\nTheir brand of telepathy<br \/>\nTender and raw<br \/>\nThe pleasure of family<br \/>\nNo fox doth ignore<\/p>\n<p>They walk with pure silence<br \/>\nEach moment they feel<br \/>\nThe ugly banter<br \/>\nThe hound dogs for real<br \/>\nCoughing and spluttering<br \/>\nGasping for air<br \/>\nThe clamour and chatter<br \/>\nAnd whining they share<\/p>\n<p>An amazing memory<br \/>\nFor paths of escape<br \/>\nThrough thistle and Holly<br \/>\nAnd gorse their bold shape<br \/>\nDescends into holes<br \/>\nInto, inky spheres<br \/>\nOut through the churchyard<br \/>\nHe gallops my dears<\/p>\n<p>Fox day it\u2019s fox day<br \/>\nThe sab angels friends<br \/>\nWho value privacy<br \/>\nWhen the curtain descends<br \/>\nHiding,   in hiding<br \/>\nSequestered and gone<br \/>\nEclipsed by their ignorance<br \/>\nNow out upon<\/p>\n<p>The plain through the grasses<br \/>\nOff up the hill<br \/>\nEach patchwork of clover and thistles<br \/>\nTo still<br \/>\nThe heartbeat a moment<br \/>\nThen across the wood<br \/>\nA flash of crimson<br \/>\nAnd foxy  gone <\/p>\n<p>He will sleep with his lady<br \/>\nLikely upon<br \/>\nA soft wispy willow<br \/>\nBoughs of dark fluff<br \/>\nCurled up in a tangle<br \/>\nKnowing enough<br \/>\nOf the dangers externally<br \/>\nAnd the dark side<br \/>\nOf life in the forest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They are a worldliness A true incarnation Wild as the winds That can blow With a notion To call on the cosmos In so many ways Heavenly bodies Who won\u2019t stop to amaze Anointed with wisdom Vital and true Living &hellip; 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