In Memoriam

This is a poem to honor Masha's and Gaven's chickens, lately slain on the Ulyaniki farm in a brutal and senseless manner by a wild animal. For the sake of the poem, a few facts have been exaggerated :)

The Great Ulyaniki Chicken Massacre

The ghostly moon shone wicked white
The grass flashed silver in the light
A foreboding calm hung in the night,
As the fox crept nigh to the henhouse.

Unsuspecting, the roosters did peacefully sleep
The hens, they uttered nary a peep
As the wily fox through the grasses did creep
Toward the slumbering fowl in the henhouse.

In the silent night, the silence broke!
The fowl in a frenzy of fear awoke
The eggs, they scrambled, white and yolk
With fright that night in Ulyaniki.

The fox attacked and severed their heads*
Feathers flew and blood ran red;
A score of chickens soon lay dead
By the light of the moon in Ulyaniki.

The fox seized his prize and away he shot,
Leaving the headless chickens to rot
And has not since been seen or caught,
The phantom fox of Ulyaniki

This gruesome tale I do relate
To remember the truly terrible fate
Of those innocent fowl, the good and the great—
The fallen on the fields of Ulyaniki.

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To Masha and Gaven, my heartfelt condolences.

*Whatever the creature was really did bite their heads off, leaving most of the chickens in the henhouse. Weird or what?