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The Wild Boar
The Wild Boar I dream I am a wild boar, a powerful, magnificent beast with mighty tusks. I charge through the hills, the forests, the fields, afraid of nothing. Then I see another boar. He is about ten times my … Continue reading
Christmas Haibun
AnElephantCant forget Santa time So he writes this piece of whimsy He is still plotting To hang up his stocking Although he does not have a chimney Xmas in Isipingo Life in South Africa in 1958 is quite different from … Continue reading
Posted in Daft Rhymes, haibun
Tagged 1958, 21st century, aldous huxley, bow and arrows, christmas, george orwell, isipingo, present, ray bradbury, science fiction, south africa, video games, xmas
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These Books Are Made For Walking
AnElephantCant always be factual He suffers from a terrible affliction By hook or by crook He gets into a book And rambles around in a world of pure fiction He has daily Adventures like Tom Sawyer Like Huck he has … Continue reading
Posted in Daft Rhymes, humour
Tagged 007, albert camus, animal farm, candide, catch 22, daphne du maurier, edgar rice burroughs, emma, ernest hemingway, fiction, franz kafka, gandalf, george orwell, gone with the wind, great gatsby, gustave flaubert, herman melville, hermann hesse, huckleberry finn, iain banks, ian fleming, ivanhoe, james bond, jane austen, jean paul sartre, john irving, john steinbeck, joseph heller, lewis grassic gibbon, literature, lord of the rings, madame bovary, manderley, margaret mitchell, moby dick, of mice and men, philip marlowe, raymond chandler, rebecca, robert louis stevenson., scarlett o'hara, scott fitzgerald, sherlock holmes, sir arthur conan doyle, sir lancelot, sir walter scott, sunset song, tarzan, the aeneid, the old man and the sea, the stranger, the world according to garp, tolkein, tom sawyer, treasure island, virgil, voltaire, wasp factory
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