Prose
Hai bun

The grey-haired old man, laughing at the slap-stick comedy on America's Funniest Home Videos, reminisced in his Lazy Boy recliner. In the 1940s, he watched Harold Lloyd and Charlie Chaplain shorts at the movie theater. The Funniest Videos' scene switched, a Dachshund was chasing its shadow, like a dog chases its tail. Round and round, barking and snapping until the dog noticed the shadow was in front of him. Now, he had it on the run. The next scene, a young girl running from her shadow screaming in fear. The old man sat up quickly. He had a flash back to those 1940s. He hid behind the couch when on the radio Lamont Cranston's eerie voice says, "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows. Heh, heh, heh."

Haiku

shadow fear looms close
neither speak eat breath nor drink
who knows what's evil

Traditional rhymed verse

In the morning it stretches West
At noon underfoot it hides best
In the evening it stretches East

It does not speak one word two or three
It does not drink water milk or tea
It does not eat apples meat or brie

It is hiding this ephemeral me
Not from people this dark me
But from sunlight this elastic me
I know not why this shadow me

Pantoum

In the morning it stretches to the West
At high noon it hides beneath my feet
In the evening it stretches to the East
It does not speak one word two or three

At high noon it hides beneath my feet
It does not drink water milk or tea
In the evening it stretches to the East
It does not eat apples meat or brie

It does not speak one word two or three
It is hiding this ephemeral me
It does not drink water milk or tea
Not from people this dark me

It does not eat apples meat or brie
But from sunlight this elastic me
It is hiding this ephemeral me
I know not why this shadow me

Anaphora

It always waits

It stretches West
It stretches East

It hides from the light
It hides beneath my feet
It hides not in the night

It does not speak a word
It does not drink a drop
It does not eat a bite
It does not take a breath

It is ephemeral
It is elastic
It is the dark side
It is a shadow
It is me