Blog 104 – White Rhino in Winter by Ms Paige Turner
The wonderful moments I have experienced on safari come to mind and so did this poem which I wrote in 1998 and was first published in The World Wide Writers anthology 1998 and then in Gill Hartley’s excellent ‘Aspects of Loss’ – A Companion for Bereaved Parents and their families in aid of the Compassionate Friends, written whilst at Creative Ink and dedicated to her shining son, Will who would have been 31.
White Rhino in Winter
And suddenly … clamped on road side,
zooless – but ours for the viewing,
prehistoric pedestrian – pavement slab for hide,
blank blinkers stare seemingly – at nothing.
Handicapped horn bent towards winter earth,
the haunting whisper of captivated guide,
“She carried two calves for fourteen months,
– she lost them last week to a pride.”
Mother’s eyes on sun drenched winter evening.
Weighted monument in mourning.
My poem ‘Smoke Screen’ is to be published by Lunar Poets in this month’s edition.
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“Weighted monument in mourning” beautiful.