So far I’ve counted fourteen song birds
Two mocking birds and one large crow
Sitting amongst the many leaves of the Moreton Bay fig tree
Which is located just outside my office window
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For me, this is one of the best poems I have read on this site since I have been on it. The pacing is wonderful. There are so many lines that are truely great, to pull one out. This poem needs re-reading and I have already printed a copy off. I read through it about five times since you posted it. The striking thing is the use of the crow metaphor. The cynical, yet passive observer of a life in which the crow seems so apt to be part of. Ted Hughs wrote an excellent collection using the crow metaphor, better not in the manner that you have here. This is a work of great imagination and pure skill. I take my hat of to you (even though it is raining) .
For the city’s homeless people who have taken root below, , , , fabulously enshrined thoughts for the living dead or not dead but living..clever crafting as Ryan aptly puts, I mouth his words..peace..
You know, I just loved this... 'til you started talking to me about sodding parking tickets. :) t x
A most inventive & entertaining poetic gem, indeed...Tom Waits? ...yir age is showing Ted & makin' me think about mine for knowin' 'bout him! lol! Clever crafting. ~ ~ ~
So who needs Bukofsky now we have Ted Sheridan? Great serious fun this.