eclipse Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 Scarecrow weeps below sky of feathers and blood, an angel holds a bullet in it's mouth, spring and winter look through its eyes. Summer and autumn carry the scarecrow through a shootists dream where he disrobes until a wounded man is revealed who demands from the shootist why he killed the gentle dove. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyv Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 Every image is compact, concise, and powerful. The first and last are especially intense: On 6/2/2020 at 11:41 AM, eclipse said: Scarecrow weeps below sky of feathers and blood ... a wounded man is revealed who demands from the shootist why he killed the gentle dove. I can't get "sky of feathers and blood" out of my mind. Excellent work. Tony Quote Here is a link to an index of my works on this site: tonyv's Member Archive topic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoelJosol Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 The same here. The image of "sky of feathers and blood" provide the U-turn point when the poem got to "wounded man" and the "gentle dove". I don't know eclipse but this reminds of the violence that happened lately in the US over the murder of Floyd. Quote "Words are not things, and yet they are not non-things either." - Ann Lauterbach Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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