Love Blackbird Poems

Blackbird singing in a redbud tree,
Why such a sad and mournful ditty?
I like your song, but, oh, tell me
Is it meant to please or pity?

Little...

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Sweet \rains new fall, sunlit from Heaven like the first dewfall on the first grass.
Praise for the sweetness of the wet garden sprung in completeness...

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If I were a bird love would be my wings
My flock would be of hip hop
Allow me to cruise sky blue white streams
Without fear of...

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She will always hold a special place
She may not want me
She wants to be free
She will always be the one that got away
The timing wasn't...

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As deep stillness fills the evening air
Whispering leaves stirred by wind’s caress
The lowering sun gilds your auburn hair
The garden quietening now before night’s rest
 
Whispering...

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I stand atop a podium made of a million mirrors.
Pointing a troupe of crooked-stained glass fingers...  
I was a never born a creature of...

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One beautiful girl, one thousand faces
Anthrax of the tongue your deadly poison 
A wake o'broken hearts, o'broken glass I run 
Because I have seen her...

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Blackbird is dead.
Yes.  That is what I said.
The woods are still.  The sun is red.
Cherries near his little head.

Dark is coming.  Nanette...

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In dream lone blackbird sits on telephone line,
pleading, what more do I have to give. 

Wing once beat out a metronome in time..
leaving thoughts lost...

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REFLECTION
I have often found respite on woodland walks. I listen, look, take every image as a point of view. On reflection, I think you do...

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Red-winged Blackbird

Look! There in the bulrushes,
Perched at an angle
To the reed,
Is the Red-winged Blackbird,
Keeping a close watch
In his territory.

How do I know it’s a “he”?...

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life flies, so quickly away
As I sit and watch from an old window
Where I love to play

So fast, in your dreams you go
In the evening...

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Trapped like a bird in this filthy cage 
Where I am starved of compassion and understanding 
Left to survive on meager crumbs 
Of affection and...

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Drape over lonely hours, gloom of night
The silence that succumbs me takes its toll
I am left with stardust shed from starlight
Words behind me, left as...

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I feel like a blackbird trapped in its cage, 
so full of sorrow, guilt, and rage. I furl
these dark wing wings and wait, a wind...

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