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Birds in the Night

July 23, 2010
By quirks SILVER, Kingwood, Texas
quirks SILVER, Kingwood, Texas
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Favorite Quote:
"After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."
"The trouble is, humans do have a knack for choosing precisely those things that are worst for them."
-Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone; JKRowling


Birds' singing as the sun ascends
Is nothing very new
Simply a worn cliché
Familiar, with morning dew.

But rarely I have heard the chirp
Of birds in the peak of night
Tilted flourishes just as pert
But heard in darkened sight.

A whistle of life
In the stilling silence
Strangely tonic to my heart
A ripple in the flat black sense
A ripple soon to part.



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quirks SILVER said...
on Sep. 4 2010 at 3:21 pm
quirks SILVER, Kingwood, Texas
6 articles 0 photos 7 comments

Favorite Quote:
"After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."
"The trouble is, humans do have a knack for choosing precisely those things that are worst for them."
-Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone; JKRowling

Thanks so much--that really means a lot to me!

on Sep. 4 2010 at 3:15 pm
Thesilentraven PLATINUM, Mableton, Georgia
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Favorite Quote:
"il piu nell' uno," (according to Emerson, an Italian expression for beauty)

"Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality" ~Emily Dickinson

"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain"
~Kahlil Gibran

I am stunned; this is a wonderful poem. I find merely the idea of it to be very clever and charming, but you also wrote the words so cleverly and... well, it's hard to describe. Just know that I love this work.