NaPoWriMo day 24 – April 24, 2021

Hello All. The prompt today, find an actual article about an animal, and change the name of the animal into something else. Then use that language to create a poem. Thank you to allaboutbirds.org for their wonderful articles about the Red Tailed Hawk. Thank you for visiting.

group of people in a concert
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      School Dance
  
 Courting teenagers put on a display
 Young couples on the dance floor
 Soar in wide circles
 Shoop – shoop – de Buteo
  
 The bravest males dive steeply
 Then shoot up, nearly as steep
 Swooping in wide circles
 Swoop – Swoop – de Buteo
  
 After several swoops a pair might touch
 He extends legs, she extends wings
 Blue gym lighting dims and swells
 Shoop – Swoop – my Buteo
  
 Sometimes the pair grab on to one another
 Clasp talons, plummet in spirals
 Before pulling away
 My Buteo – Oh Buteo – my own 

About Meg

Meg travels a lot for work. But sometimes she has time to draw and copy and fold. Favorite drink - TAB, favorite food - Bread, favorite sound - skates on ice.
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