Blackbird.
I am a thousand blackbirds flying through the sky
with pink feet
I am a thousand owls at night
I am rooks on a morning
I am swallows along a washing line
tapping on a window to see what I can see inside
I am a thousand swallows flying around a living room
I can see through lime earth-filled walls
through wooden ceilings, concrete floors
I see the pattern of earth deep below, all around
I am a thousand ants making a thousand alleyways through the soil
to serve the queen
I am a thousand bees feasting on a thousand flowers
1000’s of pieces of pollen
I can see inside a flower
see the formation of the pollen
the beauty inside a bee
I can see through all the gateways
beyond the guardians
I can see classical structures
how this world is made up
I can see quantum level creation, creators, factors
I can see energy coming into being
I am a thousand blackbirds flying over the sea
in a delightful swirling action
We are singing, all of us, constantly,
even under our breath
We don’t sleep, we constantly sing
It is our destiny
our very beingness
to sing bright
brightly.
Where I Live series by Silver Birch Press, L.A, USA: https://silverbirchpress.wordpress.com/2015/02/22/the-moors-by-julie-rose-clark-where-i-live-poetry-photography-series/
Runner-up prize for my haiku in Future Huddersfield Competition 2015 (as part of Huddersfield Literature Festival) http://litfest.org.uk/?q=competitions2015
Self-published book: ‘I Like You Like I Love’ published in 2002. Anthologies: Hope Street (ISBN:1759-2542) and Unheard Voices (ISBN: 978-0-9523246-3-8)
Poems published in The Northern Echo, Revolver, Cake, Instant, Mentress Moon, Artesian, Green Shoots and Harlequin magazine.
Prize winning poems published in Huddersfield Literary Festival Competition and Off The Shelf, Sheffield.
Interviewed by Wolverhampton Radio. Performer@ Shindig, Hebden Bridge, WriteOutloud, Poems and Pints, Edinburgh.
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