Swallows

a view at a sunset

Swift October sunset swarms
Rising in the disappearance beams of setting sun
Ten minutes gone there were none in sight
Nine and a few lifted to dive and feed on mosquitoes
Multiplying as they gathered for the dance
Soon the sky was boiling with them
Crowding ever tighter into darker screaming clouds
Half seen as flowing streams of mirrored smoke
Meeting to swell and swoop like schools of baitfish
Must appear to hungry hunters
Suddenly
It happens
The cloud swirls and darkens into a twisting tornado of diving birds
The sound of thousands of wings braking crackles across the standing corn
In less than twenty seconds more than a million birds
are settled for the night
What must they feel in that moment from heaven to earth
That kamikazi roller coaster swing together diving scream of life
That celebrates an ending of the day
And leaves us to the night
Uplifted

Reviews

[Sel Whiteley]

Brilliant, you draw the natural world with such ease and vividness so that such a masterful work seems effortless. I love how the: 'cloud swirls and darkens into a twisting tornado of diving birds.' Brilliant.

[deeps]

I love nature and i love how you started this out using the Swift October sunset swarms, beautiful line, this is amazing. Nature and sunset warms the heart, wonderful writing here.

[Gandré]

I love your nature poetry always remembering...always reflecting the past....wonderfully audacious...it has something like using your wealth of memories, this your aesthetic appreciation of nature and its philosophical investigation when looking back...

[Anya]

"Swift October sunset swarms" fantastic!!! Wonderful line! wonderful poem!! great write :)