The Lyre Bird

The Lyre Bird

A Poem by Elizabeth

As the Lyre bird sings its beautious songs,
it entrances en masse, despite the wrongs.
And One can't help but to feel ashamed;
to go 'gainst 't was taught "Worthwhile"?
Instead One chooses to harbour the pains,
so he may follow his "Instinct Primal".
One Follows the call and finds he falls,
so helplessly tall, head over heels,
over no treasure too small.
The Dance be done, the Band be borne,
all thoughts forlorne to their graves, be borne.
The Lyre bird and One together so soon,
and all is well or so be thought,
until the mentalities wrought might rot.
Now the One weeps his own, pitious, songs
about the wrongs that have been done.
He seeks the why, He seeks the what,
and He hears a dirge, canons, all but.
And all too soon he learns the Lyre bird
is a Liar heard, and now he hears no longer beauty,
but now the Minister's black sermon,
from behind his black veil.
Without the Lyre bird's lying song,
the One finds his mind, it longs to feel,
the Liar's song, for once, be real.

© 2008 Elizabeth


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All in all, it was great. This has lived up to the pieces written before it. I love the internal rhyme here. Very clever diction as well. My favorite lines would be,

"The Lyre bird and One together so soon,
and all is well or so be thought,
until the mentalities wrought might rot."

"And all too soon he learns the Lyre bird
is a Liar heard, and now he hears no longer beauty,
but now the Minister's black sermon,
from behind his black veil."

"Without the Lyre bird's lying song,
the One finds his mind, it longs to feel,
the Liar's song, for once, be real."

The one thing that distracted me in the beginning was the line,

"to go 'gainst 't was taught "Worthwhile"?"

It disrupted the flow, and after reading it several times I still couldn't fine meaning in it. Being the great writer you are, you more then made up for it. But I don't have any major complaints. Thanx for writing
♥Destiny♥

Posted 16 Years Ago



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Elizabeth
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Laurel Springs, NJ



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