Short Featherless Poems

graveyard vandals
now featherless the angels
still weep...

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Angels among Us 
connecting with those in need 
helping without praise...

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nurse patting her hard
my featherless angel sleeps~
she will never cry...

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There stands a prized boat,
owner proud as a peacock...
rain says otherwise....

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fog-filmed lax landscapes 
mercury mixed silver sky ---
featherless flies freeze
...

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How did you become featherless
Angels are always blessed and do bless
Standing too close to the fire
Devil got me in a crossfire
Make sure you always tell God yes...

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We full circle in featherless flight
Have found a wounded tree
And in its shelter spent the night
With a blanket of memory
You prayed for sunshine, and I for rain
But the time we lost is the only pain...

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Restless spirits 
living tears of terror , 
Whispering , 
are we lost  or are we found ?
Surrounded in a weak world 
where deaf ears and blind 
eyes are bleeding , 
As featherless angels 
take their last breath ....

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Envy a pilot
     escape gravity's clutches
          for oceans of air.

Manufactured bird
     raucous call and rigid wing,
          momentary flight.

A featherless dance
     in the shadow of a cloud,
          elusive freedom!...

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She rests,
Head on the table
Her hair flowing freely
A damsel to behold

Dressed in cream
Her gown ends just above her knee
Fitted to fit
From shoulder to hips

She rests,
As a featherless bird
Her flight is still far...
But her gaze on me I await...

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Lost in thought
A window’s edge
A light breeze there did caress

Whispering not of 
Booming birds
But of angels featherless

So now when I pray 
Beneath these bars
My broken skull I press

I pray not to 
Boasting bloated birds 
But to angels featherless...

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A wingless spirit, mesmerizing and pure..
Unfolds its grace, an angel so demure.
No feathers adorn this ethereal creation..
Yet radiance glows in every vibration.

A seraph's essence, delicate and bright..
Invisible wings, gleaming with light.
Beauty unbound, in form unconfined..
A featherless angel, a marvel divine....

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Does the caterpillar understand
  it will become a butterfly so grand
Does the tiny ugly duckling realize
  it will be a gorgeous swan, life-size

Does the blind, featherless baby robin know
  that off into the sky, it will breathtakingly go
They, of course, can't imagine these things ~
  That requires a human mind with wings...

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Alas, old blog, thou dost baffle me
Art thou a banjo short a cord
An off-key piano, tortured
A homeless cat meowing in the dark
A shaken not stirred literary libation
Advertising the talents of its writers
Redundantly raucous rhetoric 
Echoing down a dusty corridor
Gathering the featherless dreams
Of forlorn and wingless words
...

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the first I knew was on the breath
inhalation, exhalation - rapture
soothing melody rested on the unheard
angelic connection 

the divinity of absence of thought
but presence of mind
a dance of souls
the invisible calm embrace

healing energy entwines 
I am rested if I am gazed upon
watch me sleeping, protector
at peace with your presence...

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In The Garden of War

Satan—
Disguised cherub
Stole into the garden

The hawk 
Devoured the dove

Same wing—
Different feathers

Are we not
Just a variation

Same is the saying—
Early worms get caught
Least sleeping birds arise late

May tomorrow dawn 
Resurrection of the doves

May the true cherubs
Arise and soar
May the wings of hawks
Become featherless....

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featherless birds
flying low fiery
wounds of heart
bleeding blue
why do we do 
what we do
forgotten dance of love
fading memories of
ecstatic unions
black water
stagnant
in the vast lake of love
eternal flow to the
ocean curbed
giggling of the new 
rain
undulations
erections of hopes again
summer is an old
book
they are raping
the dead
history is
a huge
lie 
the dead...

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Crow’s Feet


What dark epaulette drapes
the scare crows shoulder?
Gazing bleakly upon
withered corn stalks
rustling in the wind’s
disdainful howl.

What mistaken duty
denies dismissal’s call
condemns the sullen sentry
to cower at death’s touch
mourning silenced wings

What twist of fate
draws him to the ground
in featherless
shivering
death?



John G. Lawless
©11/15/2017...

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light switch in the dark
fright switch
whirr of wings
unallocated
swift hither 
pulse race over ice

bat 

on the ceiling
fridge top
skitter of featherless wings
timid fear in the air
now clinging to a skillet hook
throw open the screen
wait
blurred flight-pass

out now

thread carefully
sew together a scattered panic
put heartbeats
back into their drum
make coffee
puzzle the moments...

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Once upon a time, 
Hope, a featherless bird was,
Which
For to escape from despair's land, 
Its very own wings did grow 
And  
Onto the place of dreams and 
Expectations, swiftly, flew.

Since then, 
Each time one of us feels blue,
Hope flies near him 
And on its aspiring wings of 
Optimism and cheerfulness, 
Carries him far from the gloomy
Ground!
   






© Demetrios Trifiatis
    13 December 2022...

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An uncertain time,
light switch in the dark
whirr of wings,
unlocated -
swift hither, swifter thither
soft mousy leather.
Fledermaus,
Bat!

On the ceiling,
fridge top,
skitter of featherless wings
in the air a timid fear,
clinging now to a hook.

Throw open the screen door,
Circle back, head ducked,
flap towel
shout something, anything but yes.
Blurred flight zooms past left ear.

Put heartbeats
back into their drum,
make coffee....

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I don't particularly enjoy this time of year.
It's nesting season over here.
Baby birds fall from their nest out of the trees,
featherless and blind unable to see.
I take all I find back home with me
and attempt to save them hopefully.
I've researched the method and know the technique
for feeding baby birds safely and properly,
but every single one always dies on me
leaving me crushed as crushed can be.
I wish I knew someone who does this professionally....

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in the beautiful dark
          my bright rejoicing
              heard the sweet
                  tell of its happy ectsatic
                        completely man.
                             let poet's sing the day kind
                         drink me the shine
                      drunken on eternal
                   i love winging
                scragless, featherless
             in dark happiness.
          love consumes the blind...

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gloom glides featherless angels to bleed the last ounce of ruby plasma

dim damp clouds strike silver lightening moisture from tense ebony eyes

inviting cobalt aura - glow saffron fire upon rainy faces

pleading for  final  noise to hit fading ears is howling newborn cries

entreating new flock to fly white Jupiter joy into sombre hearts  

 stars relinquishing titian rays as articles of their stardust soars

granting shadows plunging moonlight waves - melodies of hope in the light...

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