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Empty Nest

6/25/2016

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In the spring of 2015, a group of my Souljourner Sister Friends decided to go to a poetry writing workshop. The theme was flight. This poems was a response to one of the prompts.

Empty Nest
These feathers
Weren't meant
To be eternal.

I shed daily.

Eggs hatched,
Gurgling breakfast
into baby beaks
Nudged to the edge
And out.

Winglets
Flutter and drift
Into
Silhouetted horizon.

Bare tree-limb
Chatter
Sings
Me back
Brown feathers,
Lift Memories.

I fly away-oh glory - I fly away

2015
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1 Comment
Maria Elena Kennedy
6/27/2016 13:55:30

Beautiful

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