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Corvus Poems - Poems about Corvus


Corvus
Brooding atop a cracked stone cross, the raven roosts in solitude... Ivory remnants of former souls drift restlessly beneath unkempt black soil, But the bird is their remorseful conqueror, And the skeletons can only emit wails and mutters From their detaining graves... Ghastly fog slinks between the kingdom of tombstones, And the raven mourns for Death’s victims, the decaying phantoms that wander so endlessly, on and...

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Categories: corvus, 10th grade, dark, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Blackbird
In the wink the suns rays turn black to silver In molten precision He leaps; hopping A mystic dance around his meal Cloaked in glistening pitch The whisper of each immaculate feather brushing against the others No more a flawless symphony could nature compose than the sounds of a raven, being...

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Categories: corvus, animal, beauty, bird, imagery,
Form: Free verse



Corvus Breakdown
there’s no face appearing in the window as I stare through the whiskyfalls of the sun made of cucumbers that ticks in my sternum like a deathwatch so where’s my sagacity? – – lost somewhere in the pink furry mirrors hearkening ill, weirdly and sinister baffled from holding itself a hostage running wild in the power sockets the same inside out in...

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Categories: corvus, surreal,
Form: Free verse
Corvus Acerbus
She sleeps, her body lifeless in the ground, A distant echo of memory lost, And should her spirit ever dare be found, Be sure you know you alone bare the cost. For if her darkened heart should ever wake, The soul of innocence shall surely quake, As her sharpened talons mark out their score, The purest truth shall kneel and beg for...

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Categories: corvus, death, love,
Form: Sonnet
Mr Corvus
Through dense cocoons of swirling sleep and drapes of silent night, long winding dark brings shivers deep neath skies bereft of light. A haunting breeze begins to moan as age-gnarled branches creak and groan, a haunting breeze, a haunting breeze, exhales a breath as cold as stone. Black feathers shroud a moonless sleep, malignant auras swell, dank undergrowth begins to creep where dying leaves once fell. A glint...

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Categories: corvus, angst, death, imagination
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Genus Corvus
Passerine in black Jousting for mid air order Murder in the skies http://www.thehighlanderspoems.com/poetry-soup-8.php...

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Categories: corvus, animals, nature
Form: Haiku

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