FLAPPING
Flapping fills the darkness
Mere metres overhead,
The wily soon are running
The guileless soon are dead.
Avians swooping down
As innocents are strolling by,
Unaware that death is near
Sailing through the evil sky.
Feathered fiends following
Metres above their prey,
Night vision so keenly
Reveal them clear as day.
Wing-beats fill the air
Upon this repugnant night,
The unlucky are pecked apart
The lucky just die of fright.
Flapping fills the darkness
In the neighbourhood park,
Lovers walking hand-in-hand
Strolling naively in the dark.
Watching from ahigh
Wing terror is following,
Until it decides to swoop
Dying lovers are hollering.
THE END
© Copyright 2022 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Flapping fills the darkness Mere metres overhead, The wily soon are running The guileless soon are dead.
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Written on November 13, 2022
Submitted by philip0157 on November 28, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 718 |
Words | 132 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
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