Flying oilslick
on thrumming wings
collapses on my pine tree
and stares at me
daring me.
My protectors
bark their disapproval
and it languidly lifts off
trailing them behind.
Until they reach the fence,
then, tails
immensely satisfied,
lope back to me,
for their reward.
Black garbed intimidators
with steely eyes
do not impress
the wolf clan.
This is a comfort.
Shawn L. Bird 
What a great descriptive work Shawn. Crows as flying oilslicks, brilliant. I’m glad your wolves protect you. xxx Huge Hugs xxx
Yes, my curly coated ‘wolves’ are very protective where crows are concerned. They hate them with a rare passion generally reserved for cats! 😉
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CROW…A-FOOT!!!!!
This is awesome!
Thanks!
I’ve always veered to the quantum-abstract of metaphysics and my descriptions of realistic environments have suffered as a result; but it is my style. This makes me re-think such thinking. Very clever use of words to convey the extraordinary in the ordinary.
Flying oilslicks, funny.
What kinds of dogs these I’m left to wonder…
I took a poetry workshop last month with a student of Ginsberg. He had us focus on keeping out the word for the emotion at the core of the poem (i.e. love, hate, etc) and conveying it instead through active verbs and 3 senses. He worked hard to keep us away from cliche (it was very hard work!) There were some very interesting results, though.
See the ‘wolf pack’ here: https://shawnbird.com/about
It is! It’s hard because what I do speaks through clichés and riddles, 21st street koans. Stuff like: All in all is all we are, just fascinates me. When I do write more traditional poems I try, but it is hard.
Intentional playing with the cliches for greater meaning would be a different thing, I think. I did something similar with https://shawnbird.com/2013/05/09/poem-for-t-a/
“thrummings”! Excellent word!
🙂 I liked it, too.
Black garbed intimidators
with steely eyes
do not impress
the wolf clan.
This is a comfort……………very funny! to mikey here an in anther way sad cuz the crow was really trying to impress upon the princess the truth of it all!…nmaste’ 2 u frum Q
Yes. My curly coated wolf clan brook no interference with their princess!
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Beautiful.
Thanks.
Nice!
I’m glad you like it.