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The Lonely Birds
They were just two lonely birds
When he took to the skies
Built his nest
Far away from her
She preened her feathers
Sang songs of melancholy
By the fountain of youth
Illusions floated
On the water
Amid the endlessly moving ripples
Dwelling within animated atoms and molecules
Behold the fountain
When nightfall covered the sky
Stars
Wide-eyed observed
The moon’s exposed face
Shining her brilliance
On veiled illusions
She floated on her surface
Wings extended
Bathing with speckled light
Caressing feathers
Brushed away
The creases that formed
The wind
Disturbed and altered
What her eyes perceived
As truth
The moon
Face etched in creases
Placed there by time
Time
Great storyteller
Imprinting experience
Into creases and folds
She saw
The moon’s face
As it was
Beseeched the wind
To stop puffing
So she could marvel
At history
Recorded
They were just two lonely birds
When he took to the skies
Built his nest
Far away from her
She sits
Within a pocket
Of time
Waiting just inside
Lurks also her fear
So she sings
Her songs
Of melancholy
And time
Faithfully recalls
Her waiting
She looks at her reflection
Inside the moon’s face
Sees
New creases
And folds
Still a lonely bird
She takes to the sky
Finds a place
To build a nest
At night
She sings with the moon
In the morning
She rises with purpose
She has newly found songs to sing
About the author: Rosi Pineiro is a healer, children’s author and poet. Her poetry regularly appears in publications of Off the Cuff E-zine and various online publications. She is currently working on book two in the series of The Adventures of an Elf Detective and her second poetry book. More of her musings and poems can be found on her Facebook page Word Weavers Circle.