The Hunter

• Taylah Danae Baggs, Grade 6, Mooloolaba State School
• Poetry
• 2007

3rd in the 'Calling All Poets 2007' competition

The dappled moonlight glints on the shadowed pines,
As the alpha wolf slinks between the massive trunks.
He is camouflaged,
A shadow himself,
Gliding through the snow.
His massive muscular body tenses,
His golden eyes glitter,
He has seen his prey.
Drifting effortlessly,
He leaps soundlessly across the snowy land.
The rough grey coat of the wild hunter ripples in the cold night air
As he lunges and starts to run...