<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358215" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Birds</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">As etched across an Asian screen, <br>In a myriad of colors<br>Before the sun, they were, , <br>Though hardly muted, the<br>Birds, some, darkening and starkly portrayed<br>Against the sky past midnight <br>Circled about, but most<br>Appeared as a<br>Conglomeration before<br>The sea where<br>The sun seemed to be falling? <br>Could anyone believe that<br>They would ever find their lost souls<br>Within the thicket that had formed? <br>They were, red, black, yellow, <br>Natural colors of some obscure place, <br>Blending into the blueness of the<br>Ocean in front of which they<br>Darted erratically about screaming as in<br>The myth of the Sirens, <br>Or was it from some tale in the Odyssey? <br>How they were terrorized<br>When they finally came together to kill? <br>Blending into one another <br>Their blood obliterated the sun as the<br>Gulls called and the crows cawed, <br>They were all crying because they existed without a purpose? <br>They were all dead and falling, <br>Dead and falling, <br>As with the hearts and souls of little children, <br>They had no recourse, <br>There was no turning back, and their lives were over.<br>With nowhere to go, <br>They just fell dead into the sea, <br>Remorseful, <br>For they had just killed one another-<br>Severed from their once lithe spirits, <br>Young, pristine, and free and left <br>Unbound - for<br>All was just too much of an allusion?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Claudia+Krizay">Claudia Krizay</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358215" data-title="Birds de Claudia Krizay" data-description="As etched across an Asian screen, In a myriad of colors Before the sun, they were, , Though hardly muted, the Birds, some, darkening and starkly portrayed Against the sky past midnight Circled about, but most Appeared as a Conglomeration before..."></div> </div> </div>

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