“Murder!” she screamed...
Poppy’s Prompts: June!
“Murder!” she screamed!
Her cries rang loud and clear
Inky black crows startled… became airborne
June’s bleak winter winds howled with fear.
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A shiver of sharks circled round the rowboat…
Hungrily hoping for afternoon tea
Festooned with sinuous seaweed ropes
She rowed and struggled valiantly.
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Scuttling under the ramshackle beachhut peering out to sea
The intrusion of cockroaches were oblivious
While the skulk of furry foxes
Slunk stealthily through the spinifex.
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White horses rode the waves’ stormy crests
Curling — crashing chaotically with a roar
Tossing the hapless boat
Towards the forlorn shore.
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Fragile flotsam
Hurled up on the beach
A riot of cackling kookaburras rejoiced
At last! She was safely beyond the savage sharks’ hungry reach.
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There’d be no autopsy today
She’d escaped the ocean’s clutches
Maybe a Good Samaritan will happen along
And minister to her with compassionate touches.
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Who is this lass?
Will she survive… what is her destiny?
Why was she even there?
Sadly, I’m sorry… that remains a total mystery!
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Apologies! Poppy’s Prompts made me do it! The word prompts all screamed murder mystery, but Poppy wanted a story (oops) poem, and I haven’t yet learnt how to write ballads properly!🥺
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Here’s another silly poem… if you’re up for it!
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