A short poem about an animal

[kellyrfineman]

Our assignment for this month was from Laura Purdie Salas: write a short poem (6 lines or fewer) about an animal, using all three of these words: spike, roof, shadow.

My first thought was to write about a baby pangolin, because have you seen a picture of a baby pangolin?

Comments

[ext_703532]

Gotta say I was 99% sure you would enshrine a cat! But I love how quietly you've used the words so I had to go back and look for them.....they definitely walk in on "little cat feet" as Carl Sandburg would say. At least until that SPIKE. Ha! What a great ending.

[kellyrfineman]

I found SPIKE to be the hardest word to work into the poem, but then remembered the cat tossing her felt bird around and it worked out. And yes, I am predictable . . .

[ext_2214938]

First, that pangolin is a big old tease. He's adorably cute and I think he looks a bit like Yoda. I do hope we get a pangolin poem some day, but in it's stead is a perfect offering. I really love this view of a cat, and I'm with the others in loving the spiked bird.