The Apocrypha of Familiars
“The Apocrypha of Familiars”
Wings hover
light luminescent
revelling sprites dark pearls
Corvidae shades
of a family
highly functioning
dysfunctional plural
morphing unobserved
perceived non-unique
spiralling into shape
more black and grey
than white spills
from their eyes
light from their shining
hidden away
intelligence
sharp beaked
tapping codes,
self-aware, they recognise
themselves
cloaked
and disrobed
in the mirrors
of others' tomes
children
produced
from opposites
ruthless reigning raven
and charming dove chanteuse
it is said,
in blurred stories,
of the ancient ones,
no tears washed
the feet perched on
that brittle rose dripping
thorny cross
the tales
of their time
spent there sham
flighty fanciful
Apocrypha
the birds
stopped singing
their hearts
were shocked
and ceased beating
while watching
from above
men murdering heroes
and saints as beasts,
no reflective love
no tears -
not from their blackcap eyes,
but torn open - deep sorrow planted
where their precious ruby jewels
were sown
passerine
without tongues
those singing things stolen
unlike man they now speak
of far kinder gods
avian drop
like silent songs
a murder of murmuration
minds blistered unbalanced
ominous and unexplained
dark numbers
glassy eyed,
brain dead magnetised, still
their plumage ruffled
by folktales and floods
carrying misfortune
and a devil’s drop of blood,
superstition says they never
entered Noah’s ark
nor alighted from above
preferring to sit in the rain
gossping amongst themselves
chortling their chirping
falsetto over the much maligned
untouchables, the stained
black and white
the shadows of a soul
blur to
impious grey
truth spoken false
by chattering
non-confessional
scarlet cardinals
suffocates all innocence
the piercing ...
honesty
of those beautiful
pure all seeing eyes
the wise inky-stained
intelligent feathered quills
the small
yet larger familiars
fade away
(LadyLabyrinth / 2022)
"Grisgris"/ Grimes
https://youtu.be/2qtUQa5qvFE
"One for Sorrow,
Two for joy,
Three for a girl,
Four for a boy,
Five for silver,
Six for gold,
Seven for a secret never to be told."
Hundreds Of Birds Suddenly Drop From The Sky In Mexico
https://youtu.be/ZUQb-weg2lM
Flock of birds suddenly fall from the sky in Mexico
https://youtu.be/WHRAKowr67s
Scientists think they know why hundreds of birds mysteriously fell from the sky in Mexico
https://www.salon.com/2022/02/17/scientists-think-they-know-why-hundreds-of-birds-mysteriously-fell-from-the-sky-in-mexico/
Birds are dying in the United States and no one knows why
https://www.dw.com/en/birds-are-dying-in-the-united-states-and-no-one-knows-why/a-58163063
On Animal Deaths and Human Anxieties/ New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/on-animal-deaths-and-human-anxieties
Mass Mortality event
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_mortality_event
Top 10 Extremely Strange Mass Animal Deaths
https://owlcation.com/stem/Top-10-Strange-Mass-Animal-Deaths
Top 10 Strange Mass Animal Deaths
https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,2040762,00.html
Mass Animal Deaths 2016 to 2022
https://www.end-times-prophecy.org/animal-deaths-birds-fish-end-times.html
Magpie Symbolism and Meaning (Totem, Spirit, and Omens)
https://www.sonomabirding.com/magpie-symbolism/
The Superstition & Truth Behind Magpies
https://www.thefactsite.com/truth-behind-magpies
grisgris/talisman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gris-gris_(talisman)
LYRICS/"Grisgris", Grimes
https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Grimes/Grisgris/translation/english
sown/sewn
Copyright © Lady Labyrinth | Year Posted 2022
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