Deer on Parade

Deer on Parade  (E) Writer's Cramp Entry January Due January 20 #2109332 by Chris Breva

Based on a picture prompt: 24 lines simple rhyme

The doe led the way out into the open drive
Her tail she did not have to raise
The buck knew he would survive
To his Maker he would give the praise.

Man had encroached upon his land
He had nowhere else to go
He knew man had the upper hand
Years of being hunted told him so.

Cautiously they all would cross the plane
Having nothing behind which they could hide
While doing so did seem insane
There was water on the other side.

Suddenly out of nowhere trouble came
Darts flew through the air
Despite their efforts they slept all the same
It really did not seem fair.

They came to inside a fence
It was much to high to jump
The field inside though was immense
Their hopes had a little bump.

Their lives would now be at the mercy of man
Yet they would live to tell the tale
If they had crossed the highway they were on
It would have been disaster off the scale.

24 lines simple rhyme