Out Like a Lamb

Humans in the Mist

Does Nessie boast of fame
to her friends
over lemon lavender tea
because men call her name
when she lends
an occasional glimpse of knee?

Does Bigfoot tell tall tales
to his young
of fearsome, furless, monster men
in hideous detail
softly sung
with an almost-whispered amen?

Does the Yeti believe
we exist
when the vast Asian darkness falls
and there's naught to perceive
but the mist
and spooky human mating calls?


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April 7—Poem inspired by a mythical monster or contemporary cryptid

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptozoology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cryptids


The Tri-fall form, a creation of Jan Turner, has three 6-line stanzas. Each stanza follows a specific line-syllable count of 6/3/8/6/3/8 and a rhyme scheme of abcabc. By directions of the form's creator, very little puncutation is required.