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Birds in the Night
July 23, 2010
Birds' singing as the sun ascends
Is nothing very new
Simply a worn cliché
Familiar, with morning dew.
But rarely I have heard the chirp
Of birds in the peak of night
Tilted flourishes just as pert
But heard in darkened sight.
A whistle of life
In the stilling silence
Strangely tonic to my heart
A ripple in the flat black sense
A ripple soon to part.
© Sean C., Princeton, IL
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Thesilentraven PLATINUM said...
on Sep. 4 2010 at 3:15 pm
I am stunned; this is a wonderful poem. I find merely the idea of it to be very clever and charming, but you also wrote the words so cleverly and... well, it's hard to describe. Just know that I love this work.
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