Eagle-Swoop

By Richard L. Provencher

Fri, 27 Mar 2020
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After a sweep of horizon’s

view an eagle shuffles

to the edge of his expansive

space then drops from his perch

and tumbles into sky’s yaw

 

down & down he streams

in a feathery rush

the wind raw – whistling

rampant at this height

 

and down until an

eruption of force via a thermal

snatches him bodily

from a graceful

descent – upends him into

a natural pitch

that returns him towards

the stars

 

up he charges -- feathery layers

and sinew reaching

for higher sky

until freedom is his gain.

 

 

Certificate U
Poem
Street Level Poetry
Nature

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Submitted by Richard L. Prov... on

 

Richard L. Provencher

Submitted by Tom Brown on

You outdid yourself this time Richard, masterful! Do you now this poem by Lord Tennyson?

The Eagle

He clasps the crag with crooked hands; close to the sun in lonely lands, ring'd with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; he watches from his mountain walls, and like a thunderbolt he falls.

Keep well! Tom Brown

 

Submitted by Richard L. Prov... on

Thank you, Tom -- the Lord writes well. Thanks again for his poem. Too bad you were not a publisher, I have a neat children' novel, about an eagle and you may have waanted to publish it. Cheers, RLP.

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Richard L. Provencher

Submitted by Tom Brown on

A pleasure! Would like to read your children's story!