Poised
In stillness
For an instant
Then
Opening
Cutting the air
With slicing feather sounds
As the beating starts
Flight
14 Tuesday Jun 2016
Posted birds, flight, Free Verse, Nature, Poetry, possibilities, potential
inPoised
In stillness
For an instant
Then
Opening
Cutting the air
With slicing feather sounds
As the beating starts
Flight
04 Saturday Apr 2015
Tags
birds songs
give voice
where leaves in breeze should whisper
15 Friday Aug 2014
Tags
breeze, dancing alone, Free Verse, frozen image, frozen time, hawk, hawk hunting, kite, motionless, silences, surrealistic, transcendiing
It was a bird
I think
or was it a kite?
it didn’t seem to move
as I watched it
from three hills away
It was big
it had to be
it was over the river
five minutes away by car
yet I could clearly see the colouring
It could have been
an expensive balloon
it just seemed to sit
in the air
frozen
in the moment
and I watched it
Others saw me
and asked what was so special
and I showed them
and we watched it
together
shifting slightly sometimes
on the breeze
but never seeming
to move
We all said
what we thought it was
and watched till
some of us became bored
and left
but still it was there
silent
like it had been painted onto the sky
Then it moved
suddenly
so quickly
that if you’d blinked
you would miss what happened
wings in
shot like a rocket
straight down
I hope the hawk
caught the dinner
it had waited so long for
09 Thursday Jan 2014
Tags
Midnight pigeons
hunting mice in the fields