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A Stench in the Country
by Susan K. de Vegter → (All Poetry by Susan K. de Vegter)
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The southern countryside is always beautiful with wonderful aromas of fresh mown hay and peaches, apples, watermelons and fresh baked bread...then there's the other side.....

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i stopped the car to focus my eyes
a cloud of pure darkness in thoudands of flies
the breeze was coming up from the south
the stench was unbearable and I covered my mouth
just then I saw buzzards circling above
they'd swoop down and eyed their candy below
now how can the beauty before my eyes
be customized visually by so many flies
and who sprayed the air with sweet yukky
smells
of rotting old flesh in something's new hell
i looked to the east and saw pictureque pastures
full of sunflowers...a southern rapture
to the west was a grove of sweet apple trees
a few small flowers and buzzing honeybees
i stooped under the fence to venture much further
came upon a site and I shouldn't have bothered
dixie has beauty with aromas sublime
she lends her beauty to soft southern rhymes
but nothing stinks more and doesn't amuse
like a ride in the country and a stinking dead mule.

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Susan Kathryn de Vegter
copyright 2006

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 Reviews of "A Stench in the Country"
Reviewed by Tinka Boukes
Reviewed on July 10, 2006
LOL....well done!!

Love Tinka

Reviewed by Connie Hinnen Cook (Reader)
Reviewed on July 9, 2006
Even the stench of a dead mouse can give me a royal headache.
And this piece says it well. Thanks, Susan.

Reviewed by Kate Clifford (Reader)
Reviewed on July 8, 2006
LOL gotta love it :-)

Reviewed by jude forese
Reviewed on July 8, 2006
lol ... wow this poem is literally pungent! ;) some excellent imagery ...

Reviewed by Elizabeth Taylor (Reader)
Reviewed on July 8, 2006
ROFL...or a dead skunk.

Love it...

Reviewed by Aubrey Hammack
Reviewed on July 8, 2006
This reminds me of life. There is so much beauty to it but always closer to us than we want are the unpleasant smells.

Reviewed by rite
Reviewed on July 8, 2006
Death is a transition from one arrangement of particles to an other, like birth. Space and time compell us to change; there is never an instant without change. They are driven by forces bigger than life, more powerful than death. As long as this four dimensional setting traps us we will have to easily go with the flow, be propelled to the next stage or next world within the blink of an eye. Along the way we are destined to experience gruelling events, as well as those so beautiful that words fall short to describe the observations we make.

RAge

Reviewed by E T Waldron
Reviewed on July 8, 2006
You wow us with such rich poetry Susan!To manage keeping rhythm and rhyme with such great imagery is sublime!

Love,
Eileen

Reviewed by Felix Perry
Reviewed on July 8, 2006
LOL I think you may have made a point there with very strong verbal images projected into the minds of your readers. Well done Susan.

Fee

Reviewed by Andy Turner (Reader)
Reviewed on July 8, 2006
But this is the rich tapestry of southern american life..

Best of all is the accent...Funny my accent they loved...Their accent is the bestest...Just the voice of southern women kills my heart...

Well talk about lit... erm whatever, Never listened to the words just the sexy!!! drawl..lol

Reviewed by Peter Paton
Reviewed on July 8, 2006
Susan

Life is a cycle...one dies every second...and one is born...
It's time for the clothes's peg...:)
Peter

Reviewed by George Carroll
Reviewed on July 8, 2006
The smell of death is something you don't soon forget.

Reviewed by ronald genise
Reviewed on July 8, 2006
As a cowboy I know that stench is great
But think to the future what beauty it will create

Ron

Reviewed by Jerry Bolton (Reader)
Reviewed on July 8, 2006
Phew!!!

Reviewed by Susan Sonnen
Reviewed on July 8, 2006
ugh! good work!

Susan


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