Saturday, 21 July 2012

Flight

This poem first appeared in issue 26 of 'Urthona' magazine http://urthona.com/

we walk
and we talk
about this and that

loneliness
people
the future

lost in our worries
we spot two magpies
we are trying not to be
superstitious

from our hilltop
vantage point
we notice shafts
of golden sunlight
radiating towards the sea

suddenly
we are drawn
to a fluttering
in the hedgerow

we look down
and see a thrush
struggling

we stop and ponder
what to do

a bird with a
broken wing
is a sad thing

it is scared
so are we

we do nothing
and move on






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