Blackbirds Circling To Eye the Dark Festive Feast

Blackbirds Circling To Eye The Dark Festive Feast

Feast or famine, orbs in heart of a crow
love 's bright spirit and all it may bestow
Winging shadows fleeing fast every scene
bitter bile erupting from opened spleen

Flying in dark storms, hoping for a strike
dead soldiers, each head vaulted on a spike
Wonders within cleverly hidden clouds
priests in deep caves wearing unholy shrouds

Future life and great hopes it may reveal
when nothing matters, nothing there to steal
Blackbirds circling to eye dark festive feast
not even love soothes the raging black beast

Love and Fate doing battle worlds away
which is the greater fighter hard to say



Robert J. Lindley, 11-05-2016

Copyright © | Year Posted 2016



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Date: 11/5/2016 9:08:00 AM
Just seems to be a never ending struggle, good and evil...well done Robert.
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Date: 11/5/2016 6:27:00 AM
Wow!!!Amazing sonnet, Robert. lainey
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Date: 11/4/2016 10:12:00 PM
deep thoughts and feelings
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Date: 11/4/2016 10:09:00 PM
This one gets a Wow! Proof that sonnets rule. Ha. A 7+
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