From some viewpoints, a shadow has a bright side. An example is my response to a CDHK challenge to use the word [shadow] in a haiku.
Carpe Diem Haiku Family — A New “Shadow” Challenge
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Lost Lunch?
Sunlight breaks thru clouds
and sends hawk’s shadow downward.
Prey darts for cover.
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Mellow Curmudgeon 
This reminds me very much of traditional Japanese haiku.
(That means that I like it.)
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Sometimes I do not push the envelope. 🙂
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Beautiful haiku. Love the directionality of thoughts.
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I like the combination in theme of beauty and hunt for prey. Life is truly about BALANCE.
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Exquisite use of light and shadow. Masterful haiku with darkness represented as the predator as well as the hiding place or saving grace for the prey. Fascinating you chose not to identify the prey. To me, the ambiguity played well with your shadowy theme. Superb, Mel!
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So glad U like it. My initial thoughts for line 3 were things like
Chipmunk dives for cover.
Squirrel runs for cover.
Then it occurred to me that “Prey darts …” would make a 5-syllable line (w/o quibbling about how to pronounce “squirrel”) and cover both birds and diurnal rodents as prey. The nocturnal mice that have been invading my house recently are safe from hawks (but not from me).
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Good call. Where I come from in the Deep South squirrel is 3 syllables. Well, maybe two and a half.
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More than 2 syllables in “squirrel” is news to me, but I have not spent much time in the Deep South.
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I exaggerate slightly, just for the humorous affect. But only by maybe a quarter syllable.
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Ah, that makes sense! I doubt many things would escape your detection.
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My usual way of detecting things is to trip over them.
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