Dark Crow Poems

The Crow

Calling, falling cast a shadow,
Dark the pitted claw does dig, 
Diving deep inside the shallow, 
Rising above what others did.

Stark the teller of the...

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there’s a blackness
and she’s a corvid
through a hag stone’s eye
I know she has them
but I cannot feel them

  feathers

  behind me






...

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The crow rider came through the fog on an October eve.
We watched him appear on a dark crow with a weave.
Kibitzing could happen now I...

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She was startled by the demon in her dreams.
His dark eyes portrayed secrets of wonder she knew not.
Was he a bat, a crow, a man,...

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Upon the discovery of my death,
do not beat your breast, do not gnash your teeth.
Truly, do not lament my stolen breath.
sing hymns, and lay this...

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Owl, falcon, raven, crow.
Something dark against the snow.
What kind of bird? We disagree.
It makes a gorgeous shadow though against this tree.

We get closer, hoping to...

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Do not judge bird with black coloured wing,
“ugly looking thief that cannot sing!” 
“snatches from others so it can feed!”
A bird linked to death, darkness...

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Scare crow
Cold shivering down my spine I digress
In oblivion of misleading
Soothing I caress
My dreaming

Petrified stupefied I suppress
As it led my going
I became a numb horse
Enchanting

19/4/2020
Krish...

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Amidst trees cover; shelters shadow, lace 
Ferns, and flora. A citadel's embrace
Once coppice now cracks, and cushion soft moss. 
Liana crawls upon the stone, exhausts...

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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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Finally to Burn: Icarus, Resurrected
by Michael R. Burch

Athena takes me
sometimes by the hand

and we go levitating
through strange Dreamlands

where Apollo sleeps
in his dark forgetting

and Passion seems
like...

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Crow on cold stones

This black being making
A gas station appearance
Intersection traffic
Horns and lights
Sunset shortly
Walking stone to stone..
Ignoring noisy polluted
Starts and stops..
A stoic warrior
In our time...

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A quiet army of concrete apartments sleep.
The golden streetlights over metal hooks remain vigilant, hanging like drops of dew.

A murder of murderers.
A murder of murderers...

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The Tale of the Smoke Crow

His wings were made from those he'd burned.
A crow of smoke, without true form.
A thief of sorts, who sought to...

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I am a crow.
And I refused to eat the flesh. 
I am a dissident
And now my feathers
Will never be black again.

I am a crow.
And I...

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