Another special post today, combining the LLB Gang's Nature Friday blog hop with our friend YAM-aunty's Final Friday Feature.
A Young Dog Ascends Beinn Alligin, 22 July, 2023
Nobby, do you have springs for paw pads?
Did Oscar Pistorius
Lend you his blades?
Or is there perhaps,
Hidden in those wiry haunches,
A micro-motor stolen from
A cheating rider in the Tour de France?
Maybe you made a secret pact,
With Isaac Newton, thus to counteract,
The laws of gravity?
I cannot otherwise explain,
How you dance up
Our steepest Scottish peaks
With such apparent ease and grace.
So light of foot,
A wonder to behold,
While I clomp slowly, far behind,
Feeling rather old.
