Tuesday, April 16, 2013

WISP OF DEATH


WISP OF DEATH



Oh beautiful kestrel
Hovering in the air.
With piercing eyes focusing
On those at whom you stare.

The roar and din of traffic,
The only constant, rumbling sound,
As with a swoop to terminal velocity,
You fall upon the ground.

The vole scurrying about,
Was oblivious in the grassy verge,
The crash of talons, a wisp of death,
His baleful, funeral dirge.

Oh beautiful kestrel,
Speckled chest and angled wings enrapture
Princely hooked beak adorns you,
My regal, lethal raptor.


Phil Hall   April 2013





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