The mindless invader caught out by sentient Nature's might ~ a Burns Stanza variation |
Summertime Invasion Redux A moth sips sun-warmed breakfast dew As songbirds bid the night adieu; Sweet melody, Without a warning growl or yell Invader, mindless, wields death’s knell With slashing blades and noxious smell; Heeds not the plea For mercy, nor gives reason why Cut row by row, the fallen cry; Their elegy Resounds in nascent fledglings’ cries That reach the rainbow’s end, the skies Provoked to tears, let anger rise In sympathy, ‘Till with a roar, the Furies’ might Unsheathed, a blade of searing light Does strike to end lawnmower’s blight To harmony. The mangled metal carapace Washed clean by summer’s rain, a place Where nestlings sip from clover buds And sing their glee. © 2008 manga-kate Prompts: invasion; glee Plot: Invader’s pillaging returned in kind. Begin: Dawn; end later morning. Word Count: 112 Base Form: Burns’ stanza variation by W.H. Auden = aabcccb, ddbeeeb, foreshortened lines 3 and 7 in iambic dimeter, balance in iambic tetrameter, maintaining the foreshortened ‘b’ rhyme throughout with a finale of iambic tercets my own I hope does please. |