(growing Pains) 5.At The Pond Poem by Janice Windle

This is a crisper, more structured and concise version of 'Feeding the Geese'

All the geese swanning over
and one greedy duck
gooses her for the bread
she holds behind her back....

We're not expecting that...
It's all very well
if you're defending Rome,
but.....

And here (8th October 2008) is the final version of 'At the Pond' - a combination of the above and the long first draft - 'Feeding the Geese':

Goosed at the Pond

All the geese swanning over...
Where's the bread?
The Tesco bags
of stale loaf, pieces
apportioned to each
little alms-giver.

But how could we foresee
these geese
would be
so forthright
in their greed...

to come up and
goose you
for the bread
that you
were throwing
to them!

It's all very well
when you're
defending Rome,
but...