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