Medicine Bird
Poetry Drum
Verse
The Uni-Verse
The multi-verse
The prosody of life,
cascading through
the rhythms and rhymes
of ultimate existence.
From the sublime
to the prosaic.
– Individual poems
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There you were
Riding the air currents
Capturing the sun
on your underbody of yellow iridescence
Medicine wheel on each wing
giving a measure of my life to be.
You, a Silent One
Diviner of a future
bequeathed by my own imagination
You, prophesier of a new
and wondrous cycle
Hanging on a trapeze of air,
you speak to my heavy mood
And fill me with the promise
of dreams born into reality.
Suspended above
Split hair beyond my reach
Hovering on foils of feathered majesty,
you pierce the veil of time
Open my vision
to the grandeur to come.
© Carl Hitchens 2005
