<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=581673" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Villanelle: Blackbird</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The freakish cawing from the blackbird’s bill, <br>In autumn after other birds had fled, <br>Impaled the air and signaled winter’s chill.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I stood and listened, savoring the thrill<br>And wondered why the superstitious dread<br>The freakish cawing from the blackbird’s bill.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Perhaps they’d better reckoned why the shrill, <br>Outspoken, charcoal guardian of the dead<br>Impaled the air and signaled winter’s chill.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A witness of the seasons, it could fill<br>A tome or tomb with woe: I heard, instead, <br>The freakish cawing from the blackbird’s bill.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The raven’s kin, it played the brazen shill<br>And, morbid incantations having plead, <br>Impaled the air and signaled winter’s chill.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But as I yearn to hear the robin’s trill, <br>I think of when, now comforted in bed, <br>The freakish cawing from the blackbird’s bill<br>Impaled the air and signaled winter’s chill.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Richard+St.+Clair">Richard St. Clair</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=581673" data-title="Villanelle: Blackbird de Richard St. Clair" data-description="The freakish cawing from the blackbird’s bill, In autumn after other birds had fled, Impaled the air and signaled winter’s chill. I stood and listened, savoring the thrill And wondered why the superstitious dread The freakish cawing from th..."></div> </div> </div>

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