poetrywall poem # 1
My granddaughter, Cressida, wrote this poem on the Poetry Wall of our summer cabin when she was 10. She added a drawing of a cat calmly walking away, a dead bird on the ground behind it.
the sleek cat stalks its prey
silent feet creep up
closer
closer
closer to its prey
closer
flat on its stomach
crawling low
as if a herd of
predators
were chasing
after it
suddenly
front feet fly
back feet follow
silently
it pounces
it lands
it kills
©2014 Jacqueline Jackson
This article appears in Nov 13-19, 2014.
