Rabbit
Wonderland Poetry Prompt Challenge day 21
She was busy counting wolves
conversing with crows
soft and white as a widow's linen.
They scoffed at her,
called her delicate,
only good for stew.
So she dug herself into stories,
buried beneath the noise
let them hunt after the myth of her,
never finding it.
The forest swallowed her,
dried leaves and damp earth
scented with cinnamon
embracing her bones
in the hush of the underbrush.
She multiplied in silence
beneath the roots,
growing wild
through branches of wildflowers.
The thicket whispers a warning.
The hunters have gone missing,
and the doe-eyed jejune "varmint"
awakens whole, green with breath,
wild,
and never soft again.
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Ellie Hoovs
Breathing life into the lost and broken. Writes to mend what fire couldn't destroy. Poetry stitched from ashes, longing, and stubborn hope.
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Ellie, you forgot to add my Rabbit entry. 🐇 It’s here below in a comment.
A true story for Day 21! https://todaysurvey.today/poets/a-sermon-for-the-absent%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv class="css-w4qknv-Replies">
My special entry for Rabbit: https://todaysurvey.today/poets/rabbit-fm4vg00ma%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv class="css-w4qknv-Replies">
Here’s my entry: https://todaysurvey.today/poets/shy-rabbit%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/a%3E An intriguing poem… I love the start, “She was busy counting wolves conversing with crows soft and white as a widow's linen.” & how it contrasts with how she was seen.
Here is mine, it is an old one but hope it fits https://todaysurvey.today/poets/rabbit-t45pkg08lo%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv class="css-w4qknv-Replies">
Hi Elie, here is my Day 21 poem. https://todaysurvey.today/poets/rabbit-xgvy0us6%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv class="css-w4qknv-Replies">
Wonderful piece. You do that interlinking of person, animal, magic, nature so well.
Oh, those opening lines, wow. Your choice of words and phrases appeals to the word nerd in me :) I loved these lines especially, She multiplied in silence beneath the roots/ growing wild/through branches of wildflowers. Wonderfully penned
Beautiful, I love rabbits, thankyou for sharing xx
You don't see the word "varmint" used every day. Nice piece. https://todaysurvey.today/poets/tumbling%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/a%3E Here is one for today.
Well-wrought! A lovely rhyme here: "in the hush of the underbrush" We must especially beware the rabbit on our search for the Holy Grail!
So beautiful I love Rabbits 🍀🍀⭐️⭐️🍀