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"]