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Saturday, 2 May 2015

For Love

 
A flame fearlessly flew across the sky,
Seemingly setting the clouds alight,
Through howling winds you hear the bird cry,
Weeping for the sun being swallowed by night.

As the sun dies this feathered best is no more,
Until the white lady upon the birds shines,
And reborn creatures of the night roar,
Soon quite before prying eyes finds.

The night lies silently around it,
Laying a cloak over the still,
But the moon outshines it,
Letting the bird in for the kill.

It dives swerves curls glides,
Down into a precise descent,
Until it fills the sky from all sides,
Wing spread talons extended 100 per cent.

Touchdown.

She grasps the fleeing creature in a deathly grip,
And pride shudders through her bones,
It was a successful trip,
Hunger no longer moans.

So up she went into the natural world of birds,
Higher in to the night her wings a fearsome sound,
She crossed mighty white stallion herds,
Across the ocean and into the beach they pound.

Then clearer and clearer the vision came,
Of sticks and twigs bound together tightly,
And feathers peeping through holes the same,
Happy to see mother and food which curled whitely.

She lands her wings spread out to soften her fall,
In her nest safety is recalled,
So sound her eyelids dropped and she no longer stands tall,
As the sky brightened and the cockerel called.