The Saga of the Red Boar
And Other Poems
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Here is the delicious sound of a cow cropping fresh grass: she flicks her tongue round a wadge, presses up with her teeth, tugs, and pulls with a satisfied sucking crunch and swallows fast into her cavernous depths. Her firm tread is red-heavy under her dewlap's quiver, ponderous and ox-sure like her ancestors who plodded, pulling the plough over this same pasture she now grazes observing with cloud eyes. Her mooing is mellow deep like old gongs from Tibetan temples and tranquil yaks undeterred by adverse winds. Her life is tongue-grasped lushness fortifying maternal feeling in long lactations ended only by a bolt's fast thud. Her pleasure will not end in pain, decrepitude and tasteless sheets; but then, she cannot ever know the joy it is to stand here watching her enjoy the juice-filled grass.
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This collection of poems and short stories, some of which have won prizes and/or been published in various anthologies and periodicals, were written by Anthony Weedon over a period of thirty years. They are mainly inspired by his close association with nature throughout his life. They are composed in a variety of styles and vary from the deeply philosophical to the decidedly humerous and a few were written for children. The short stories are in the form of folk tales inspired by the author's idyllic childhood in the heart of the Suffolk countryside, an experience shared with his late wife Jenny, to whom this work is dedicated. Pigs, horses and wolves, Jenny's and Tony's favourite animals, along with birds, trees and flowers, all feature strongly in many of the poems, four of which are about Jenny, portraying her in various ways.
About the Author
For most of his life Anthony Weedon has lived in remote rural places away from towns and cities. He was an Anglican priest for twenty one years, fifteen of them in Ireland, but left Christianity in 1875 and led a very happy life working first in horticulture and then as a management services officer, retiring from that job to live in Lincolnshire with his wife Jenny, after which he began to write books, two of which, The Sisterhood and Artichokes with Alice, have been published by Authorhouse. Tony's and Jenny's long interest in both Buddhism and Humanism is reflected in much of what he writes.