If I had known what would happen
I wouldn’t have let you catch me.
I was enjoying the chase,
my hair rippling in the wind I created,
feet flying through the forest,
the various birds twittering
about, laughing at how slow
the chase was. I imagine
they weren’t
surprised
when I quit moving
completely, save the wind
fluttering
through my leaves.
About the Creator
Harper Lewis
I'm a weirdo nerd who’s extremely subversive. I like rocks, incense, and all kinds of witchy stuff. Intrusive rhyme bothers me.
I’m known as Dena Brown to the revenuers and pollsters.
MA English literature, College of Charleston
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Comments (3)
Nice job on the descriptive elements of the poem. It really brings to life the feel of the freedom that the running must have brought Daphne, before she was caught, how playing the mouse in the game of cat-and-mouse must have made her feel. Nicely done.
Interesting take on the Apollo-Daphne myth
Like the perspective of the one pursued.