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The Hunter

A-gile she walks, taking stock of every step her B-rashness emitted in her long stride C-at is a coy and confident girl and the D-oves have a reason to fear her E-very bird from Blue Jays to Sparrows avoid their F-eline foe when she is in the yards G-rasses are tall this season and she waits H-idden in the esters, purple fountains or I-nside the shadows of the tall Lavender and J-asmine K-nowing they can’t see her she L-ies in wait M-y kitty will leave Nothing to chance, she doesn’t move while they’re in the O-pen air she stares and studies her P-rey for hours Q-uietly she stalks them, she’s deep in the grass like a R-econ mission in war, S-he seizes the moment T-actfully, silently gets on her haunches and U-nleashes her body like a rocket V-ictory! Victory! She Won a sparrow for her prize. X-Mas! she Y-elps, it’s like X-Mas!, and she lays her kill to the ground and celebrates with great Z-est. 8-27-14 for Abcedarian Contest

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Date: 9/9/2014 2:26:00 PM
Christine, this is a nice example of an abecedarian poem. Amazingly done. Love Linda
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Date: 9/8/2014 2:05:00 PM
hi Christine a very good poem but what I was after is how the poems that got a 1st place were written I loved the story congrats on HM and ty for your support
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Christine Costello
Date: 9/8/2014 2:42:00 PM
Thanks Shadow. :-)
Date: 9/8/2014 5:16:00 AM
Nice theme, congrats on the win, Christine
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Date: 9/7/2014 5:29:00 PM
My poor kitties can't get out to stalk the birds. There are too many coyotes out there. Congratulations on your win. Love, Joyce
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Date: 9/7/2014 2:46:00 PM
Congratulations Christine on your Abecedarian poem.
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Date: 9/7/2014 2:10:00 PM
wonderful imagery many congrats on your win:-) Hugs jan xx
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Date: 8/28/2014 2:07:00 AM
Predation can be so natural, so beautiful. Honed instincts, how very lovely Chritine. Fantastic imagery snd feeling. J.A.B.
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Christine Costello
Date: 8/28/2014 9:55:00 AM
Thank you Justin. I reformatted it to show its an abcedarian- i have trouble with formatting my poems, they get all cut up. Thanks for your kind words and for reading my poem. :-)Christine

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