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Beauty Blind In Zeus's Eyes

BEAUTY BLIND in ZEUS'S EYES

Born in dark with glints of light
the baby owlet flies.
Clots of stars within the skies
and clots in owlets eyes. 

Darkest night and darker days, 
he soars to search for prey.
Seeing not, the hunger grows 
and no light shows the way.

Need for shelter, thirst for drink, 
and wanting his own nest.
Nothing safe in all the world, 
and not a place to rest.

Flying on but weak from trying, 
not knowing how eyes work.
All the thoughts within his head 
are where the shadows lurk.

Then it rained, no shelter gained, 
nor food, nor water yet. 
He strikes upon a closed in porch 
and thinks he's lost the bet.

Falling hard, he hits his head 
and waits for all that's dead.
Someone comes and lifts him up 
and gives him food and bed.

No light but still, deep inside, 
a hope is whispered there.
A touch so soft, and hunger gone, 
no thirst, nor cold despair.

His life enclosed inside a trunk, 
provided for his care.
His days are spent in lots of play, 
in starry starry stare.

Beauty blinded by a chance 
and only feels and hears. 
If only backwards, time could be, 
to undo all his fears. 

Blind beauty he, to everything,
yet his eyes show us far.
That deep in clots and clusters, 
there awaits the nearest star.

Owl blind by birth and circumstance, 
has seen much more than we. 
Eyes renewed for bird and man, 
now that would be the key.

~Edlynn Nau~

Copyright © Edlynn Nau | Year Posted 2015

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Robert Lindley Date: 10/19/2015 9:24:00 AM Superb writing my friend. Great story, impressive imagery and fine message conveyed! Super 7 on this one.. Login to Reply Edlynn Nau Date: 10/19/2015 1:06:00 PM Thank you Robert for stopping by and giving this a read. Isn't it easier to write when our passion is behind our subject? Poor dear blind owlet.

CayCay Jennings Date: 8/21/2015 10:16:00 PM You have a quality for imagery that's impressive and makes a thinkers read, no light fluff from you. I am truly enjoying your talent. Now that you know how I feel about your gift, I may read the rest and keep quiet lest I become redundant. CayCay Login to Reply Edlynn Nau Date: 8/21/2015 11:12:00 PM You are very nice to drop by at all! There is so much to read here. It is a daunting task. Don't we wish we could see who is reading like on FB. Then too, the audience is always in the dark!

Ian Jones Date: 8/17/2015 3:46:00 AM I love rescue stories. They renew my belief that there are good people out there both for beast and man who do things not for praise but because it's the right thing to do. One of my little quotes is that charity does not begin at home but rather at the place of greatest need. Lovely poem. Kind regards, Ian Login to Reply Edlynn Nau Date: 8/17/2015 2:06:00 PM Gosh! Ian I love your quote! Thanks for your comment here! I felt it was important to get Zeus's story out there b/c it renews our faith in the right thing to do. It is nice to feel that at the darkest hour (which all are, for Zeus) that there is a glint of hope that someone can reach in and change our tiny little lives! It also says a GREAT deal about the one who reaches. Both are healed and the world is much better. The waves that come off the acts of kindness are gigantic!

Afolabi Muideen Date: 8/17/2015 1:20:00 AM Your write flows eloquent in the heart of the readers. It's extreme beautiful and excellence, it so painful for the blinded Owl. I love your write..........A.M. Login to Reply Edlynn Nau Date: 8/17/2015 2:04:00 AM Thank you! It was an easy task to give myself because I was truly torn up that this creature tried so very hard to survive and in the wilderness, would have died. That he chanced on a porch in the city of a women who found whom to call, is no less than a miracle. Zeus was reborn to a new life then. He is such a beautiful owl. I just am sickened that I can't wave my hand over his eyes & heal him! Thank you for your kind words. I'm pleased you enjoyed Zeus's story!