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Lessons and blessings (the black-bird)

Small featherless bundle ..broke out of a shell

Parents they love him they nurture him well

 

Loved Sweetest brother black birds they sing

A gift from the realms now black feathered king 

 

Beauty overwhelming aura of kindness 

Intelligent protector humbled by shyness 

 

The black bird protector his presence 

brings calm

He sings when he's with you he's on your lef...

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Blackbird

A Little Bird

He belted his little heart out

Same time every day

It lasted for hours and hours

But still…

She  does not come.

 

I shouted out to the little bird

“Why not perch on another tree?”

 

“I was calling out to you…”

the little bird replied,

“To keep that smile on your face.”

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Blackbird Mother

My wings are brown, not black and shiny.
I'm always peeping out through leaves.
I try and keep above the fear trilling below,
I know they are ingesting bitter roots.
And yet I swallow their song all the same.
The empty smoke of hope that arises,
as I am the Blackbird mother sitting,
gathering material and protecting you,
refined in pointless expectation.
I am a gust of failure that ruins,
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Llyfnant 2 

version without the Welsh folklore

 

Under the yellow-green of sunlit beech

between banks of bluebells' hazy blue

where supple crosiers of new fern reach             

over verdant moss still damp with dew

a grassy lane runs beside the river

 

In the mystic quiet of a leafy dome

of grey bark ash, beech and mighty oak

a far cuckoo calls all walkers home

but we pass u...

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