Challenge
Wiedersehen
Write a free verse poem or micro-fiction story mentioning one or more extinct animals as well as referring to several different sounds. Include as many of the following words (or variatons on these words) as you like: wiedersehen, caliginous, separation, believers, signs, long-staring.
7 reads
Not Out of the Woods
In the wilderness
every animal
says
Wiedersehen
into sleep
pulling
caliginous twig
shadows wave
see you again
later, my friends
separation blue
on the horizon
Baiji in dreamscape
shhh... make
believers of us, kin
in the signs shedding
amidst the leaves
long staring swells
beneath, watching
as seeds and spores
float downwind
while we remain
rooted in
10.29.2024
Wiedersehen challenge @CKMunsell