as bats steal out
a barn’s threadbare timbers go spinning
rickety spells
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This poem was written in response to Carpe Diem Special #126, Sogi’s “Butterfly home”, another great prompt hosted by Chèvrefeuille at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai. All of the poems in the link-up can be read here. And, to finish, here is a song by The Byrds, which apparently mentions a bat, briefly…
Completely new song to me! And there’s great wordplay in that final line 🙂
I think it’s from their last album – a great feel to the song!
And wordplay is one of the techniques I was wary of before 😉