Best Susurrant Poems

“The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.”
- J.M. Barrie,...

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Behind sheer curtains
Golden rays sing the day’s pulse
Grandeur to the beat of life

The ballad bows proud
Whistling in rhythm tango
Bird’s susurrant calm weeping

Hills and valleys hum
Sweet...

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Be not harried by apostasy spates
Surcease ye flux of basilic imprecations
Adhibit ye ,supernal paracletes  
The pith of divinity

An Achates,
Vae victis
In this temporal realm

Chatoyant fanfaronade
Sursurrant...

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Day-after-day the widow
"listens out for the ordinary" 
and hears only susurrant voices
until deafness overcomes her

©Kathryn McLoughlin Collins
April 21, 2012

Inspired by Jan Oskar Hansen's "To Be...

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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart; I breathe at this hour the fragrance of the lilacs, the violets, and...

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I hear the starlings' song,
mighty murmuration,
soaring through the ages.
Their secrets undisclosed,
naught to revered sages.

I hear the starlings' song,
mere memories of past
journeys through boundless sky,
leaving charmed...

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