<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=399451" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Black Crow (in answer to Ted Hughes)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Crow flew up into the air<br>looking, always searching <br>with a keen eye<br>roving down to earth from the sky</div><div style="margin:10px 0">with wings flapping<br>under the blazing sun<br>almost blurring in<br>their quick movement</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and flying from the blinding sun<br>with paws folded in<br>but at a time he had to dropp down<br>like lightning falling from the sky</div><div style="margin:10px 0">to find something somewhere<br>a mouse, a rat or a bigger rabbit<br>to feed with claws ripping<br>with blood oozing red under them.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Blacker than the night, <br>spreading his wings<br>again he challenged the sky<br>thinking about being supreme</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and that was his undoing<br>as he flew up as high as eagles do<br>against bare cliffs to a nest of their young<br>and faster than light, was pierced, was flung from it</div><div style="margin:10px 0">dropping down from the heights<br>and heard the screaming roar<br>of a eagle’s triumphant song<br>just before death ended everything for crow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[References: Wodwo and Crow (extract) Two legends by Ted Hughes.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</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=399451" data-title="The Black Crow (in answer to Ted Hughes) de Gert Strydom" data-description="Crow flew up into the air looking, always searching with a keen eye roving down to earth from the sky with wings flapping under the blazing sun almost blurring in their quick movement and flying from the blinding sun with paws folded in but at ..."></div> </div> </div>

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