Challenge
Write a Poem in any form,
Using no more than 100 words,
And
Five instances of Alliteration
Four Onomatopoeia
Three moments of Personification
Two metaphors
One Simile
And a partridge in a pear tree.
Or some other bird. In some other tree.
105 reads
Racoon’s Lament
The Bird was teasing him,
thrumming through the tree.
The tree was teasing him,
trembling its tenuous branch tips in the twilight,
Hiding birds.
Like a scoundrel.
The Treetop hid the moon as it fell,
its wicked glow an eye about to close,
its silver light a waning breath,
he drank its cold milk,
wanted to crack its smooth surface
and also drink
the warm yolk
as it slipped down
the bruising
sky.