Black Bird
You linger like a cool shadow
Decrying the morning mist
Sullenly eyeing me
Sizing me up with haughty regard
Then returning to your intent perusal of the earth
Raucous as your cousins are musical
Choppy as they are graceful (in flight)
It is you they look to to forecast dark portents
Prudently I avoid your shadow
But I will not avoid your gaze
You present a challenge to me
A challenge I MUST rise to face
Indifferently you flap your wings and fly away
Your dangling feet rising and falling
With the pulsing beat of your wings
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Fond as you are of sunlight
You linger like a cool shadow
Decrying the morning mist
Sullenly eyeing me
Sizing me up with haughty regard
Then returning to your intent perusal of the earth
Raucous as your cousins are musical
Choppy as they are graceful (in flight)
It is you they look to to forecast dark portents
Prudently I avoid your shadow
But I will not avoid your gaze
You present a challenge to me
A challenge I MUST rise to face
Indifferently you flap your wings and fly away
Your dangling feet rising and falling
With the pulsing beat of your wings
Written: Dec. 16, 2009
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