The Shack
A Shakespearian Sonnet
The Shrieking Shack is useless nowadays.
Its friends have grown too old for moonlit sprees.
The dog is gone; the werewolf moved away;
The rat is missing, and the stag is free.
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When they were young, the friends had stayed all night.
They'd made the Shrieking Shack their monthly home.
They'd come each time the moon was high and bright -
But nowadays the Shack is on its own.
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It sits there like an old abandoned ship,
For no one wants to enter anymore.
The voices calling, "Moony, let it rip!"
Are only echoes lying on the floor.
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(But every time the moon is full, the Shack
Still tells itself its friends are coming back)
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[2015 New Years Resolution Challenge: write poetry]
[Quidditch League Truth or Dare: write a poem with the line "and let it rip"]
