Goose

[nar]

The plural of goose
should be goose.
Akin to sheep
or fish or moose.

Plump and wedge,
flock and team,
skein and gaggle
should also be goose.

To migrate in a V
should be to goose.
To honk and shit
on my roof? To goose.

Then, I might
be able to write
the odd poem
in February.

- Neil

[Antcliff]

Hi
I like this..such whimsical pieces are much to my taste.

I feel your pain....
Ant

[Thoth]

Hi
(as well as copulating with much fuss and noise) It would would make for some interesting verse - but, since it is Poet's duty to push language to new heights, we can authorise it; Get goosing everyone!

Loved this tongue-in-cheek piece! Good work.

Wally

[Lake]

Hi nar,

It is indeed fun to read, both the language and content. I always admire your word play.

Thanks for the read,

Lake

[nar]

Thanks, everyone.

Just a little lighthearted nonsense to try to lift the winter woes.

Seems to have been taken exactly as intended.

Kindest,

- Neil

[Deryn]

Oh nice one Neil

There is certainly room for 'lighthearted nonsense.' It's the kind of verse that rolls out of the mind sometimes. Light relief perhaps from all the deep thinking we do?

Deryn

[Arian]

Personally, I think the singular of sheep should be shoop. After all, two feet, one foot.

Good stuff, Neil - witty and well expressed.

Cheers
peter

[oranggunung]

Nicely done, Neil.

I think poet's should be allowed to be playful, and this is certainly that.

I just wondered, perhaps as some additional silliness, if you might wrong-foot your readers with the last verse.

Something like this:

Then, I might,
if the words shook loose,
be able to write
the odd poem
in February.


The additional line sets things up for a neat closure, which you ignore.

Just a whimsical notion


og

[David]

Neil, I really like it, except for the last verse. It's a clever piece of bathos, but I was enjoying your goosing (oo-er missus) so much until then that I hoped you'd finish with more of the same.

The first three verses are great.

Cheers

David

[nar]

Thank you, gents.

@ Deryn: Deep thinking? Me?

@ Peter: Thanks for that, always nice when you drop in. I'm with you on sheep / shoop. Additionally, I think the plural of toothbrush should be teethbrush.

@ og: Ha, that's a fab idea! All left-field wrong-footing monkey-business is right up my lane.

@ David: You're right, of course; the last verse is way out of kilter with the first three. I can't remember now if that was deliberate, or if I just ran out of goosey stuff to say. I suspect the latter.

And once more - thanks everyone.

Kindest,

- Neil