Life Crow Poems

Steeped in mysterious magic
fearlessly they go
an eerily mischievous bird
you’re never far from a crow

Mystical messenger of the occult
blackest black obsidian plume
baneful omen of death they...

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White feather was warned Crow Squaw was insane
Crazy in the head, some said
Speaks tongues, think it’s from Father Sky
He had never met her before today
The...

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Smokey hailed from someplace back in Missouri
was a slave until the ripe old age of ten
Left his master's home headed to Montana
and swore they would...

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"The Crow Bar"

she said,
here I bury my dead,
you can hear them sleeping
somnulent forget-me-nots,
snoring blithely unaware,
in neat rows between 
the thick,
ink injected lines,
their soiled lives
ploughed and...

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A little history- Black Country Communion is a super group,
formed by Glenn Hughes, Joe Bonamassa, and some other musicians;
it was a side project started...

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Deaths hand dealt
	fire
		flung with fury
	towards fractured souls
		that felt
	life reduced
to fragmented parts

Crows feet
	walked on strange places
		following
	a lost trail
		leading
	from a desert oasis
		weathering
	its sand
		burning
them as they wept

Eyes
	pouring
		a river...

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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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As though treasure lost
Cuckoo chirps in rhyme hiccups 
Eggs lay in crow’s nest
She knows crow will care her chicks 
For mother, every child’s hers

Does cuckoo...

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Great Spirit
Who is the center of all circles
light, life, directions, colors and love
I give you my heart....Wayne William Snellgrove     Saulteaux Tribe...

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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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Early mornings, bright ice  blues as life wakens 
birds  and squirrels  scratching for seeds and nuts
black crows pound at the tree or...

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Crow Mornings


Early mornings, bright ice  blues as life wakens 

birds  and squirrels  scratch for seeds and nuts

black crows pound at the tree...

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I run and hide from my shadow,
The murderous wingspan of crow -
Of flight, not fight.

My curdled dendrites long since spent.
Like the greening hulk, my skin...

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Do not be mistaken by the black feathers upon my chest
I am the mediator between life and death
Do not be fooled I am no omen
I...

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Birds like peacocks, parrots are loved by everyone,
But I’m the bird that is loved by none,
People always make my fun,
I’m a crow.

When I’m hungry, I...

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