a Poem for "Out of Standard" writing

 

Iba saw

 

Iba saw the Light

It was coming down

Down the road to here

Iba was thinking

 

What was she to do

Take care of herself

Alone pondering

Getting lighter now

 

Drying blood red peas

Lay beside the road

Scattered, strange pervert

She dare not step there

 

Iba made her choice

Dash into the trees

Forest's kind cover

Shoes stuck in red muck

 

Where was Nature's aid

Light, trees, red pea muck

Rescue might be one

There was nothing else

 

The light came nearer

Iba grabbed her shoes

Ran back, where she'd been

Light coming faster

 

What soon would she know

Driver smiled, nodded 

Swept her up and gone

Pursued by armed men

 

Rover lights went dim 

Into the forest

Through the red pea muck

Now saved by the Light

 

 

Me, beside our Rover -- -- -- Amy, our driver

[click on picture for larger view, click again for largest]

 - You might ask, "where is the forest?"  We didn't see a forest in the Falkland Islands although we did have to drive two hours through this pasture/mucky bog to get to the Penguin Preserve.  Amy's Rover is a 2000 with 57,000 miles.  There isn't any place far on those islands.  Her mom got a new one and this is her old one she gave to Amy.  
 - Amy contract drives with the tour companies.  When an RV gets stuck it is said to be bogged.  Properly bogged if it has to be towed out like this one is being.  The driver was Amy's brother.  Amy is a good driver, she didn't get us stuck.
 - We were on a Princess Cruise, from Los Angels to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from last December 4 to January 4, 2017.   Pictures here were posted on my other blog (link) from our cruise ship, The Pacific Princess (link)

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 - Poem and Falkland Island pictures Copyright, © 2017 and 2016 Jimmiehov, All Rights Reserved

 - Top Photo is my "Print Screen" copied from Isadora's post referenced and linked immediately below

- 1)  I am linked with Isadora Gruye at the Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Out of Standard -- Photo Finish, http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2017/05/out-of-standard-photo-finish.html  
  - 2) We were instructed to write as we were "inspired" by the picture and use the unrelated words she has written below the picture of our choice.  I chose the one here, at the beginning of my post.  the words were, "self, care, wasabi, peas."  Wasabi wasn't in my dictionary so I treated it as a nonsense word.  My first two words, "Iba saw", also the title,  consist of Wasabi spelled backwards.
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