A new experience

narrative verse in Iambic tetrametre

 

A new experience

 

Across the windswept moors there came.

A long drawn out and eerie cry.

What could it be in heavens name?

Another echoed in reply.

 

I will admit quite openly

I’m not at all ashamed to say.

 This eerie wailing frightened me.

 I still remember to this day.

 

 When first I heard a vixen cry

as she was seeking for a mate

 The dog fox voiced a quick reply.

 Which gave me cause to hesitate.

 

I’m glad to say I persevered

 and faced up to the sound I feared.

I saw the vixen easily

and heard her call repeatedly.

 

I was no longer frightened by

 her strange unearthly screaming cry.

Just then the dog fox came in sight.

She greeted him with mute delight.

 

What happened then I do not know

 I felt it only right to go

Now that I had identified

 the animals that loudly cried

 

their needs upon the evening breeze.
I left to let them mate in peace.

Although their cries had frightened me

I treated them respectfully.

 

I walked as quickly as I could

towards my home, I understood

they had the right to privacy.

There are some things no man should see.

 

24-Jun-08

 

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Reviews

[Debbie_Philly]

Amazing as always dear sir.... I'am such a fan of your work.... you have been an inspiration to me in the past and you still are.... Wonderful write !!!

[Lena M. P.]

This was cute. I enjoyed reading it. Made me smile. Respecting and facing our fears.