Stone The Crows – 6th October 2025

Save your scratch in a small vase

Paris, they say, is better in pairs

Arcs of triumph encircled by cars

Scare the children, and no one cares

State your case to the makers of taste
The eyes on you and me, they see

Heats the spring into summer’s haste

Ate alfresco with a steeping tea

Cider salted by the tears we cried

Peach perfume bought on the cheap
Tired of all the cobbled streets tried

Peek at all these secrets to keep

Rat rummaged garbage made art
Night is made of stuff and thing

Earth must reveal its true heart
Sign the road along where angels sing


Atoms burn bridges over the moats

Stone the crows, we’re taking notes

Written for prompt #7 at the Chimeric Poetry Scavenger Hunt:
An (extended) shadow sonnet, where the shadow words are anagrammatical (because, why make it easy?)! This took a long time, even with help from AI to find the anagrams that may also rhyme. This is also why it is extended, as I couldn’t figure out what to trim after all that effort. Did my ideas translate well enough through all the restrictions?

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