tiny kingdom – Mandibelle16

Thanks to Lorraine from MindLoveMisery’s Menagerie for hosting this prompt. This week I’m doing a five line free verse with a goal of twenty-five words

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Gazing across his tiny kingdom,

Beetle prince prepares for giants.

His shell is thick and resilient,

He’s difficult to squish; escapes —

Easily, lord over his domain.

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Mushrooms poisonous, his castle found,

Searching, scrumptious bites to nibble.

Proud tiny prince he’ll never —

Notice until too late how huge —

Giants actually are — slaying him.

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Forest floor a massacre the —

Castle had fallen; the prince —

Lays dying, his shell breached.

In his Heaven he wanders;

No longer minute, he’s significant.

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