Showing posts with label bird. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bird. Show all posts

Saturday, May 1, 2010

the faults of a sparrow

he was an eater of seeds
a generally harmless common creature
content with anything in small amounts
blunt-beaked and stubby
not at all extraordinary

she had seen a thousand sparrows
it was not him but the ruthless eagle
that she caught her eye


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Notes: I'm currently sitting the the Newhouse labs waiting for my videos to export, so I decided to take on prompt #2. I was amazed by how little I had to say about sparrows! This is what I managed to come up with... thoughts?

The prompt was: "Write a free verse poem using "sparrows."