Even Prompter

Six Points to my Star

Six Points to my Star

O
by the
bank of the
somnolent Thames
way down south where the breeze is sweet
I sat for a while in the shade of a willow
that trailed its tendrils in the waters
as angling for a bumper crop
of the silver stickleback
hiding from the frowning pike
flashing of sides in the rippling tide
and the sun-dappled grass ‘neath the leaves
nature’s secrets
revealed
in my
I

Line count: 16
Free verse in six-pointed star shape
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 44 2023
Prompt: Shape poetry.