Goats are such quirky smart animals. I like them a lot. There are couple of them in a 4-H farm, close to my house. This is 15 minutes from the town centre, an area of both the urban and the rural.
@Jenny I just watched the movie "The Men Who Stare at Goats" which may have influenced my poetry :). I've not had much first-hand experience with goats, but they seem to be interesting creatures.
@hb I read a little about the history of the term "scapegoat" and that's what inspired this. It was a ritual to load a goat up with the people's symbolic sins and send it off into the wilderness.
i know about this ritual... just always i ask why... why some other being, creature, thing should be sacrificed for OUR sins... why not accepting the responsibility?... these are the things that should be changed in our societies... should be taught in schools...
so crows are reformers too, eh?
and they are also tattletales... and sometimes they even backbite:
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Goats are such quirky smart animals. I like them a lot. There are couple of them in a 4-H farm, close to my house. This is 15 minutes from the town centre, an area of both the urban and the rural.
Very nice rhythm and I really like "goat load".
Love the metaphor :)
@Jenny I just watched the movie "The Men Who Stare at Goats" which may have influenced my poetry :). I've not had much first-hand experience with goats, but they seem to be interesting creatures.
@PS Thanks!
i read this several times... an each time just 'scapegoat' comes to my mind!
i feel a special affinity for them... and a never-answered why?
@hb I read a little about the history of the term "scapegoat" and that's what inspired this. It was a ritual to load a goat up with the people's symbolic sins and send it off into the wilderness.
ah... so crows are so clever, eh?
:)
i know about this ritual... just always i ask why... why some other being, creature, thing should be sacrificed for OUR sins... why not accepting the responsibility?... these are the things that should be changed in our societies... should be taught in schools...
so crows are reformers too, eh?
and they are also tattletales...
and sometimes they even backbite:
http://flowersofsulfur.blogspot.com/2010/05/river-has-no-leader.html
:D
I appreciate all sides of the crow's personality :)
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