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As the Crow Flies
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...

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Categories: as the crow flies, bird, dark, imagery,
Form: Free verse



As the Crow Flies
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...

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Categories: as the crow flies, goodbye,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Haunted
A hole in the head shooting pain trembles
nightshades coldly down the spine
a soul lost in the land of the living
carried away in darkness
flying inside dark...

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Categories: as the crow flies, animal, dark, dream, light,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Silent At Sunset
In my countryside, silent at sunset
Long gone is the stress, long gone is the fret,
Long gone is the need to be so wide-eyed
Silent at sunset,...

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Categories: as the crow flies, nature, silence, sky, stress,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Black Caw Crow
Black caw crow flies overhead 
black caw crow cries sounds of dread
small birds shiver in covert trees
mice skitter, scatter and flee. 

Watercolor skies abound 
mournful...

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Categories: as the crow flies, bird, dark, death,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Black Diamond
summoned black diamond
sun's at other side of night
with the dream roses

heart of joy twinkling
gone down in sea of colors
star of plum evening

still in its peach...

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Categories: as the crow flies, beauty, color, flower, nature,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Haunted
A hole in the head shooting pain trembles
nightshades coldly down the spine
a soul lost in the land of the living
carried away in darkness
flying inside dark...

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Categories: as the crow flies, dark, death, destiny, gothic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Welcome To the Funny Farm
Beware of wolves in sheepskins
My what clever wolves
I wonder if the sheep could pass as wolves
Perhaps they could go to Wolves R Us

I've heard of...

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Categories: as the crow flies, animal, fun, funny, me,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Detached
a crow flies upwards

leaving its forlorn shadow

 stranded on the ground...

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Categories: as the crow flies, bird,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member On Sunny Street
My special angel, you are watching over me,
In the days of holly, or when it is blossomy.
A secret friend, following me through my days,
Though others...

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Categories: as the crow flies, angel, care, friend, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Owl and the Crow
The Owl and the Crow


The hunter captured the owl
He brought her home to his castle
Inside a cell she was put
Away from the rain

The owl, never...

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Categories: as the crow flies, imagery, philosophy, urdu, wine,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ten Bucks In His Left Shoe, Bold In His Steps
Ten Bucks In His Left Shoe, Bold In His Steps
          (Walking Traveler of Hope)

Walking, each life...

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Categories: as the crow flies, art, blessing, creation, dedication,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Tale of An Old Crow
I was hiking in the hills, and I was talking to the air
when a fork in the path, took me first here,... and then, there
Prickly...

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Categories: as the crow flies, confusion, grandfather, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Sweet, Sweet Desolation
Ahh despair-
sweet, sweet, sweet desolation.
As the crow flies- enter onto me

Salvation from freedom;
on his wings- incarceration.

Nuveau of Elvis rhyme
Faith acquired through distress
Velveteen fraud
particle blues- such...

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© Amy Green  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: as the crow flies, depression, devotion, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Crow
Crow flies arrow true,
from limbs hung in dark cold 
cloaks. 
Ebbed sun, strikes the day....

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Categories: as the crow flies, winter
Form: Haiku

Book: Shattered Sighs