Tale by moonlight
We gathered outside my mother's finest hut,
waiting for our night story,
as everyone is a partaker,
and sleepless as we are,curious to begin,
shabby rooftops roughened by ages,
and moonlight beamed from above,
in circle,we sat in desperation,
tearing our hearts for grand mother
She dangled into our midst,
and draged her walking stick,
in attention we stared in silence,
crickets whistled from around,
Sending us into misery of fear,
when she titled the tale,
''Tortoise in the den of horror''
she butress our fragile hearts
And the harder...the moon shoned brighter,
as scary as we expected the horror,
when we freezed in cold of a new dawn,
and she lastly took us to bedtimes,with her loving,
lullaby,
Cooled dews began to drizzles down,
like a haze in the harmattan,
splashed on the forests,
and the tale touched on with smile,
from granny's best stories.
We shut the wee door from visiting guests,
of un-wanted creeps of disgust,
our quiet home of African tale by moonlight.
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Submitted by Bossmanas on August 04, 2014
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 951 |
Words | 171 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 3 |
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