Black Bird

Fly away black bird,
perhaps you’ll encounter a carcass
or someone kind
will offer it to you.
You’ll hide in the dry bushes with food,
Your black feathers will flutter in the wind,
satisfied and full,
your body
will heavily descend again to the ground.

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[Twilight]

Even birds can suffer from gluttony, as hinted at in this poem; which is perhaps a curious thought. The garden where I live has shared access, and it's blatantly the pigeons which behave most gluttonously.

Anyway, several of my own poems feature birds as the protagonists; and I have linked them with philosophical thoughts or just personal observations about life and society etc.

In this poem, it's focused upon a black bird 🐦‍⬛ in keeping with the writer's chosen symbolism; regarding black.

I'm not sure why, it's been restricted to such brevity and simplicity. However, I can relate with the freedom and simplicity - which birds take for granted. Indeed, birds are associated with such values by writers; and by other people in different contexts.

The so called "carrion crow", would certainly have seized any carcass which it spies, on the ground below - as it soars high above humanity; and the troubles unique to our own species...

[Relic]

I like this a lot. Those f sounds stand out really nice. I can see animation in this. Great writing.

[Black Branches]

thanks! 💗