Once Lived Life As Both Fox and Chasing Hound

Once Lived Life As Both Fox And Chasing Hound Once lived life as both fox and chasing hound each one thinking, they were true, honor bound. As the fox, took great pride in being shrewd failed often to see my actions were crude. When fleeing forth in life at lightning pace taking too much as I ran, a disgrace. Never worried about deep and high costs figured each cold Winter brought killing frosts. When chasing old fox, my mind went astray swearing to catch and eat him every day. With each new dawn, my hunger more intense I failed to see myself being so dense. One sad dawn, I caught that shifty ole fox his words showed me my big, dark prison box. Blessed reprieve for him, I did not eat His wisest move and both our greatest feat. Once lived life as both fox and chasing hound each one thinking, they were true, honor bound. As the fox, took great pride in being shrewd failed often to see my actions, were crude. Robert J. Lindley, 3-25-2017 Syllables Per Line: 10 10 10 10 0 10 10 10 10 0 10 10 10 10 0 10 10 10 10 0 10 10 10 10 Total # Syllables: 200 Total # Words: 164 Note- Inspired by Tim Smith's free verse poem--titled the -- The Fox And The Hound.-- https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/the_fox_and_the_hound_884102 As I do not do free verse very well, methinks, I went with personification in rhyme and ten syllable verses. Thank you my friend Tim Smith, for the great inspiration.. your free verse poem and its creativity and depth inspired this effort by me , written in a much different poetry form. I hope this poem written this morn, may honor your poem well, as an inspired tribute to it.