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Dark branches dance against an aluminium sky
as dusk taints the edges with blue.
The last crow warns of death as it passes,
it's cry echoing along the shoeless streets
and down to the brook where once laughter played.
Storm clouds gather in furious array
shaking thunderous fists at the earth below,
their forked tongues tearing the atmosphere
as the first droplets spew forth from their ragged mouths.
The milk of human kindness,
a bitter tincture to swallow,
hold the nose, sip it down,
malaise caught in a furrowed frown,

never to bite the hand that feeds,
just gnaw at the skin until it bleeds
the masters table has room for all,
fain take our fill from the crumbs that fall.
For a second the world was silenced and freedom mourned.
In memory of the Charlie Hebdo  journalists who will sadly write no more. Today is the saddest of days.
  Jan 2015 calpurnia mockingbird
Piglet
a collaboration with Calpurnia Mockingbird*

Write for you
let words pour fourth
for the good of a smile,
to release the pressure,
to dry the tears.

Write for you
because you feel it.
Not for the lightening,
the exclamations at clever rhyming
nor the coloured heart that marks your triumph.

Write for you
for love, for joy, for fun
let your souls soar with the majesty of eagles
upon the freedom of a blank page.

Write for you.
your desires and dreams.
Your wishes and doubts
may echo in the lives of others
but that is not their worth.

Write for you
because it is how you breathe,
how you let go,
be soothed by the flow of ink
for it is your only stillness in an ever spinning world.

Write for you.
Only you.
Always.
I came up with this idea last night after reading all the "awesome" poems and got to wondering if that's why we're here, to gain praise? If I never had a poem trend or liked would I still write? Of course. Should popularity matter...nope. Thanks to Cal for agreeing to come along for the ride, it's always a blast :-) x
  Jan 2015 calpurnia mockingbird
Piglet
Everybody that comes here day in day out and bears their souls, often with no response, yet still they come, because in some quiet way it helps. You know who's awesome?
All of us.
So there!
  Jan 2015 calpurnia mockingbird
Sombro
Sweet lady with our sweeter son
read to the boy in bed
have words of wisdom, sage and true
dance in his sleepy head
for in the sky sweet child and I
will paint a poet's dream
and though the day
will make its way
our stars will always gleam
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