The Tainted Black Bird

The Tainted Black Bird

A Poem by Michael G. Smith
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Analogy of love.

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Love as the tainted black bird blue

Never turns in my direction


I caw and caw under a red hot sun

A chicken run without a head

Mimic mock it constantly


Hoping for some kind of acknowledgement

And yet it stares off

Then leaps away to higher lofts


Where anger turns

Eros arrows

Into throwing rocks

And I kill love


Within my arms I caress it

If but gentle for a shorter while

Bury it an unmarked grave


Like a passing season

Becomes a winter’s heart

In an old shoe box

Without holes

Never see lights or days

© 2013 Michael G. Smith


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I am reading a lot of bird analogies tonight - hmmm...

Love will fly if we do not take care ... but there is a darker aspect to your metaphor, too. I like the image of the old shoe box without holes... I have the song "Crow Jane" playing in my head. Great stuff here, Mike!

Posted 10 Years Ago


Michael G. Smith

10 Years Ago

My yard is inadated with crows. I do get an occasional cardinal.
Rita L. Sev

10 Years Ago

Crows are crazy, but cardinals are so beautiful... My grandmother LOVED cardinals - she collected th.. read more
Lol .. nice imaginary .. i liked the fantasy of yer mind. Good job.

Posted 10 Years Ago


Neon

10 Years Ago

Oh i c.. so it means .. is it real???
Michael G. Smith

10 Years Ago

No, the crows plague my hard day after day so I try to write about them. Actually I am quite in love.. read more
Neon

10 Years Ago

I got it .. thanks ..
& Hey .. Wish you great happy life with yer beautiful wife and keep wr.. read more
its nice..I liked it...though,its a love poem,you have included nature so fanatically


Posted 10 Years Ago


Michael G. Smith

10 Years Ago

My yard is plagued by crows everyday so I try to compare them to life.

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Added on October 29, 2013
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