Receptive
In the songbird's throat
a palette of colours
startling flair
in the white lace of morning sun
tiny fierceness
that shears the forest with its bravado
deliriously unselfish
unbroken vocal spear
For a hiker, in statue like calm
closing cluttered thoughts
discarding tidy self musings
his receptive ear to the rosy pulse of song
to recall his beau with perfect pitch
displacing willed isolation
Chorus of vanity from a winged creature
that skips through a wounded forest
to wash away a world stained
In notes pure, like ripples of water on a hiker's brow.
Poem revised: January 27th, 2021
Copyright © Brian Sambourne | Year Posted 2020
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