Here is another decastich. These are fun and challenging due to their rigid rhyme scheme (aBaBcBcDcD) and alternating 10-beat lines of iambs and trochees.
Inspired by the picture below of a feline-shaped sand dune on Mars:
(photo from here: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/06/25/nasa-photo-blue-sand-dune-mars/729939002/)
Amidst our Martian neighbor’s dunes of dun,
Zephyr-hewn shifters of cold sifting sand,
Up-springs an azure creature where should none,
Rocketing rabbit-like over strange land.
Except for deep leviathan, no beast
Continent-sized can the Earth boast so grand.
Albedo-shaded Cerberus, at least
Try as you might, there’s no way you can catch
Fleet-footed feline as sport, or as feast.
Egyptian sphynx, behold your desert match.
It’s amazing how different these meters feel: the stately stentorian iambic pentameter lines alternating with the galloping, barely tethered to the soil trochees.
