Wednesday 10 April 2013

A Poem a Day (21) - Hunted


Morning! Today's 5-minute poem is inspired by the prompt from Robert Lee Brewer in the Reader's Digest April PAD Challenge (day 9). The prompt is hunted or hunter.

If you want to join in with the challenge, here is the link:
http://www.writersdigest.com/whats-new/2013-april-pad-challenge-day-9

Here's my effort -



Hunted

Beneath the curved moon’s stare
She runs

Livid in the ice-cold touch
Of air’s fingers
She turns

Lithe limbs burning,
Her mind sets on nothing
But the escape -
She dashes

Silver in the distancing,
The silent shimmer
Of the lake entices -
Knowing, panting, slipping,
She leaps

Into the dark, inviting depths.
Chill water cascades,
Dipping her ears,
Coating the twitching whiskers -
Flicking the droplets
She swims


copyright Vickie Johnstone


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