Daily Cascade

Words

Prompt:
Have fun with these words: lesson, snarl, guitar, draft, length, rifle, acquaintance, funny and shift.

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His Guitar Hummed

a *snarl of wind beneath the moon
as his *guitar hummed a mournful tune

the *draft slipped through a broken pane
in the *length of night, as if a *refrain

and his *rifle rested by the hearth's gleam
like an *acquaintance in an old dream

conjuring up ghosts that drift and *shift
a *lesson taught, yet not *funny to uplift

the old cowboy on the strings strummed
and his guitar a sad tune it hummed