hawk (Remove filter)
Safe
on the roof hawk chicks
secure at
twenty-three
floors high
nestle their mother
under bright sun
watching
the male soar
free to hunt,
enquiring amber eyes seeing
colours we can't
no
flames
disturb the
eyrie no
screams ascend or
smoke black as
seventy-one funerals
Tuesday 4th August 2020 11:26 am
Air Worthiness
Air Worthiness
The Harris hawk is sleek and fast; fine-boned,
she swoops free from an armoured glove
towards some distant, perfect perch,
only then to see and hear the falconer's call; to search,
then sweep down to the hand that feeds and nurtures.
A hooded hostage; in restless freedom she presents a bleeding dove.
Trimmed hawks hunt in packs on Argentine pampas...
Saturday 25th November 2017 5:10 am
HAWK
Keen-eyed keeper of the skies,
Lord of everything that flies,
There's no way your watchful prey
Will wait to pass the time of day.
Patrolling country, cliff and city,
You were not designed for pity;
Not for you the hurting heart,
You were born a deadly dart.
Nature fashioned hawk and prey
To keep the balance in her way;
Not for you to reason w...
Monday 2nd April 2012 4:52 pm
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