I'm really not sure if this is a hawk or a falcon, but for purposes of this poem, it's a hawk. I was really just enjoying a little word play here to exercise my mind. So I threw in some in-line rhyme, a touch of onomatopoeia, questions, exclamations, repeating lines derived from the first line, some alliteration, caesura, and yes, that toucan line. Hope you like it.

This poem is a set of 4 septets. A septet is simply a poem with 7 lines of any meter. Here I used short lines that ranged from 4 to 6 syllables, and a variable rhyme scheme of:
abccbca ddededR ffgfgfR hhiihiR

In-line Rhyme: Where one or more rhymes occur within a line of poetry, rather than between end-lines.

Onomatopoeia: This is the use of words that denote a sound or the feel of a sound. For example, "Oink" is the sound made by a pig. "Swish" isn't a sound, but gives the feel of a sound. Can you find it in this poem?

Caesura: A pause or stop in a line of poetry, usually with some form of punctuation. I used that in line 5 of the second stanza. Can you spot the other one?

This picture was taken by the author himself in an open area of the bluffs at the St. Croix River in September 2013.

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