NaPoWriMo 2013: Day 16, ‘The Panther’

Panther (Photo credit: Joachim S. Mueller)

The Panther

by Kimberly Bower

She walks in beauty, like the night

Her powerful body glistening

Damped by the chase

The antelope panting

gripped by fear

knows he is doomed

even as the panther draws near

The hunt is short

The panther quick

But in an odd twist of fate

The antelope slips

The poacher’s pit cuts the panther’s hunt short

The panther resigns

But finds another sport.

 

Other NaPoWriMo Day 16 poems:

• NaPoWriMo 2013 Day 16 – Castles in the Sky (wordyrappinghood.wordpress.com)
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• NaPoWriMo 2013 – Day 16 (2voices1song.com)
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• NaPoWriMo 16: The Philosopher (mglilienthal.wordpress.com)
• NaPoWriMo – Day 16 My Own Translation “We, As I” (twoscamps.wordpress.com)
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