Create#18 – Kennings and Red Kites

By Lynn Whitehead

I am a thermal floater.

A finger flutterer

Calling for a takeaway treat.

I am an alarm screecher.

Lesson teacher,

Not sneaky,

you know I am near.

A rampant rodent scoffer,

A gliding hunter

Keeping farmlands clean.

I am an Auditory mesmerizer,

With my soaring cries.

I am a sorcerer in disguise.

I am beauty, I am a Red Kite.

By Ellen Best March 2021

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