' ' ' ' Prey (A Tanka) Poem by Dónall Dempsey

' ' ' ' Prey (A Tanka)

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Cornered animal
her eyes glaring fearfully
as her cancer...stalks...
prowls...begins to move in for
...the kill. Prey can't even pray.

Dónall Dempsey
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Topic(s) of this poem: animal
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Onelia Avelar 12 July 2009

Your poem reminds me an amber with a little insect closed within, last movement caught...

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Curragh Camp, Co. Kildare, Eire.
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