And so we created an eagle gong of fencing wire and a lid of iron but will it protect the geese for long? We hoped for a tinny windswept song to chime across valley and river stone. And so we created an eagle gong To strike itself with a haunting dong and keep the eagles spooked and shy. But will it protect the geese for long? The hammer's a corn can and a barbed wire prong. The goslings, one by one, have gone and so we created an eagle gong. It hangs from a Stringy by a leather thong and waits for the wind to sigh and moan but will it protect the geese for long? To see those feathers, the death. It's wrong. The poor gander marches, bereft and strong and so we created an eagle gong. But will it protect the geese for long?
Posted for the EIF Poetry Challenge
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Out of the Cave 
My mother tells me I would feel different about the wedgies if I had seen her geese (mature ones) strewn across the paddocks in bits.
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Oh it’s tough alright. Everybody has a right to eat though. I eat meat too. Nature just doesn’t package its meals in styrofoam and refrigeration.
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Exactly.
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This is such a hauntingly beautiful poem! Thank you for your entry 😊
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Thank you!
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I really like this; it’s one of the best villanelles I’ve come across; I was unfamiliar with the phrase ‘eagle gong’ but I plunged in anyway and learnt something
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Thanks! I don’t know that it’s a common phrase. I think my Mum read in a permaculture magazine is or somewhere about this way of scaring off predatory birds. We probably gave it the name eagle gong It was during a ten year drought. Everyone (in the wild) was hungry.
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I looked it up; that wasn’t much help; so I reread the poem carefully for clues: that gave me a pretty good idea 🙂
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I love this as much as the first time I read it. Had to Google villanelle after John’s comment. It’s such an eerie and beautiful poem.
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Thank you! 🙂
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