Night Poem From Khandro

[Khandro]

The Donkey

When fishes flew and forests walked
And figs grew upon thorn,
Some moment when the moon was blood
Then surely I was born.

With monstrous head and sickening cry
And ears like errant wings,
The devil’s walking parody
On all four-footed things.

The tattered outlaw of the earth,
Of ancient crooked will;
Starve, scourge, deride me: I am dumb,
I keep my secret still.

Fools! For I also had my hour;
One far fierce hour and sweet:
There was a shout about my ears,
And palms before my feet.

G. K. CHESTERTON

[Khandro]

allenlondon; How much of Chesterton have you read? You must have read a lot to have come across his 'anti-Semitism', where did you find that?
I have read a great deal of his writing & also his biography by P.J. Kavanagh & haven't found that to be the case.

[AuntPollyGrey]

Sparkly -I only know the Rugby Club version and its a bit ruder than that lol!

[SparklyKid]

I love limericks.

[AuntPollyGrey]

I love Rugby Songs lol!

I do like poetry too though -I like this one:

http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_woods.htm

[eleanor2]

Yep mamya, had family in the Christie too x

[Mamyalynne]

x

[SparklyKid]

Very nice APG.

[allenlondon]

Oddly, it was your LRB that reminded me.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/07/07/the-back-of-the-world