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Burning Blood
By mishmish
10 June 2006
I am vehmently against any form of blood sport, but especially fox hunting.

I completely understand why farmers get annoyed about foxes rampaging through their farms, and have seen the devastation left by foxes on chicken coups. In these circumstances, humane methods should be used to reduce fox populations. In the end, I am great believer in natural selection, and that nature will take it's course in redressing a balance.


Burning hard the ground
After the sign - the horn's sound
Spirits fighting fast
Must make the daytime last.

I feel the blood thunder
I feel the world spin
Must win!

Above - the pack
The red light shines
Their eyes
Hunger three days past
The howl for the flesh

Must run - the hunt begun.

Fields flash by
Heart in my throat
I scream to my sisters
To beware

The rush to escape -
Too late...

Bushes, branches halt my path
Crimson, be the dawn of time
After thine

I need the power
Deep - my soul
To run...

The sunshine hard
Fast searing heat
Sweat - the pores flood
With urgent juices.

My sisters
Ripped apart
Bones licked dry
By the devils with tails
Though devils not they be

The riders
The Earls of darkness

For tradition
The royalty race
The British honour
What a disgrace

Blood the colour blue
Take the unregarded.

The need is great
Never hesitate.

Run...run
The hunt begun

Run above the winds

For speed be your exit now
For speed be your key.

The pack - upon
Teeth, gleaming white with red
Paws with claws
Tear my flesh...
...Till I am one with the Gods on high

Down - I look
The feast begun
The hunt doth end -
As life

How do they say
They be human
Sport
"Oh for the fun of it, darling!"

The taste of bitter blood
In the mansion houses flood

For the killers in silken suites
Armed with titles in pursuit
To do the done thing...

Why do they always win?

Because the system
Never will break

But break, now -

Descend the houses of death
And teach the lesson to them
Respect
Both the great and the small

For animals, they do see
But might Gods
We may be.

Reviews
Breathless pace
Written by Leo (573 comments posted) 10th June 2006
I galloped through this, as i'm sure was your intention. 
 
You put across your views very well. 
 
Thanks!
Roman de Renart...
Written by gerardconnolly (1186 comments posted) 11th June 2006
Having been brought up rural Ireland I have to confess I have no strong feelings either way on the subject of fox hunting. Interestingly since it was native Irish farmers rather than the Anglo Irish toffs who did such hunting in my part of the world [Galway ] that may help to explain why, rightly or wrongly, the same sort of obloquy was never visited on their heads as on huntsmen and women over here.  
 
My father and his two brothers farmed arable and pasture and though none of them hunted he frequently waxed eloquent on the subject of the damage foxes did not simply to the chickens, but to the farm generally. His opinion, for what it is worth was that soi disant animal lovers might get a longer prespective if they stopped reading Beatrix Potter and tried to run even an arable venture. As a great believer in Natural Selection he shot foxes by the sackfull. His arument was the fox naturally selected to eat his chickens and he therefore slected, naturally, to shoot it. It was all done in the very best of taste. 
 
My feeling is that it might be better and a great deal more fun to revisit the wonderful exchange dreamed up between Chaunticleer and Pertelot. Every egg a bird and every bird an egg, so to speak. Not that it would have made much sense to my dear darling Daddy who is now like so many of the foxes, dead. God rest his soul. Though not, I fear, if the foxes have anthing to do with it. 
 
Slan! 
 
PS. Nice poem too. 

Written by brook_rivers (484 comments posted) 12th June 2006
here! here! I agree with leos comment and glad you have written about a cause u are passionate about, i agree with your sentiments completely! 
Think i may have to do some serious poetry as well now!! 
 
brook x

Written by no1butClo (339 comments posted) 11th May 2007
so you're against fox hunting? :p  
 
I got the impression of a hare about half way through, with lines like "Deep - my soul/ To run...". I like the broken kind of english, it puts the idea of simpleness into the voice, a lack of understanding ["Why do they alwasy win"] 
 
I like what you've done 
 
clo

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