Red Robes

defrocked cardinals
driven from the hallowed apse
heresy of owls


John G. Lawless
©7/26/2018
Copyright © | Year Posted 2018

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Dietrich Avatar
July 26, 2018 at 7:19 PM
cool to play around with metaphor and the collective noun for owls. I did that with some other kinds of birds years ago in a haiku
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July 27, 2018 at 7:49 AM
Thanks Andrea, I've been having some fun playing with the bird theme.
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