Dawn Hunts Shadows
Double Swap – 7-22-25 Rhymes checked with www.rhymezone Syllables checked with www.howmanysyllables
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Dawn Hunts Shadows
Dawn hunts shadows with shafts of light
Golden swords pierce raven night
Long shadows flee from the meadows
With shafts of light dawn hunts shadows.
Hints of amber glows through each tree
From the meadows long shadows flee
Dawn repels dark things as grace flows
Through each
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Categories:
hunts, light, morning,
Form: Quatrain
Tabby Hunts For His Best Friend Malley
Tabby Cat from London Town walked in the alley
With a strut and a hop, looking for his pal, Malley.
Malley had been shipped off to a house for Christmas Day.
If you play your cards right, the man said, we might let you stay.
Tabby Cat did not know where his friend Malley was.
He heard loud sirens and
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Categories:
hunts, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Wine In the Val D'Aosta
Steep slate slopes glow in autumn gold
Below jagged white aretes.
Strong young men hunt among the crags
Pursuing choice chamois and deer.
Valley maids harvest purple grapes.
Laughing children mash-dance in vats.
Women stir yeast to set the brew
And lid and cork some oaken casks.
Auld men rest warm on terrace slates
Of a sunlit vine-wrapped arbor,
Slowly sipping first blush vintage,
Telling
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Categories:
hunts, age, children, emotions, food,
Form: Free verse
Faerie Hunts Down Frog Accountant
The prince was fearful when he saw the pretty faerie headed his way.
He held up his arm indicating that was close enough.
She was transfixed by his stare, so she kept flying.
Seriously! He croaked, please give me six feet.
She sat down, and he relaxed a bit.
I am here to transmogrify you back, she told him.
He had
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Categories:
hunts, fantasy,
Form: Prose Poetry
Panther Hunts
C-ougar looks for food,
S-earching for prey to attack,
M-ountain lion kills.
Form: Acrostic Haiku
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Categories:
hunts, birthday,
Form: Haiku