Best As The Crow Flies Poems

As The Crow Flies

Staring past the curtain,
At the vigilant crow upon the mast,
The creature unaware of a presence,
In a moment forever lost.

Unflappable in its endeavour,
A breather from its hunt,
A distorted view of the world,
Its cackle alerting its murder..... of its next tenacious stunt!

Unperturbed by darkness,
Its...

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As the crow flies

I died. No child under nipple. No child under bib.
I died. Without ever having loved or been in love.
I died as the crow flies. Straight and placid.
I died. unmanned, in holster, uninhabited.
I died coralled up in moments, to tangeled to give an...

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Off the perch with shame beneath,
A Twitted crow flies aloft.
Hoping spectrum, blues and reds,
Dreadful notions, ugly skin!

Bracken wings, rotten look,
Rocking black, freakish beak,
Squawking hard, aiming high,
Cracking sound, beating trees!

Nasty fight that broke his heart,
Thrown afar from family,
Roots unknown yet fallen prey,
Lost he was to mystery.

Spreading...

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6/6/16


Seeing things from both sides
And copious amounts of smoke rise

With my own eyes
At times, I do not always know why
As the time continues to go by
And according to how the crow flies

Matter and molecules bended
And  unexpected things occurred beyond being comprehended
Some of which were...

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the universe was not built in straight lines ~ only humans cut corners

By
David Kavanagh...

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moist cinnamon bark

infused fragrance levitates -

monsoon descends time


rice fields lie flooded

draft windswept change into roots -

rise to the challenge


tea leaves take shelter

swell burgeoning impatience -

cusp spring’s prophesies


seasons scent chances

tease taste bud’s fluid advance -

crow scares wet footing


22th May 2020...

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As the crow flies
the pig sighs
as the doughs rise
the twig cries

as the grass grows
the freckle knows
as the moss shows
the heckle throws

as the pig tries
the child lies
as the wig glows
The tale grows...

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