Since I didn't finish the challenge *cough*finals*cough*... I'm posting all of the poems from
100poems onto my regular journal, probably one every few days. Feel free to comment! Please! ^_^
Two CrowsI espy from the outskirts
Of the dustblown pasture
Two crows.
See one dance a cocky jig
To, fro, and about a jagged rock,
Having plucked for himself a morsel,
Stale and salty, from the ground.
But in a tremulous croak,
A single misstep, his presence
Is betrayed.
At once, see how he is set upon by his fellow-
And weaving up in the poplars,
See how they swoop about
Their treacherous chase.
One is too swift,
The other too nimble.
And the dastard crow
Falls under the futile beat
Of his own wings.
At every dive, he is thwarted
From above, then stabbing upward
From below.
See how each time
He overshoots?
Again he turns, again, again
He dips and angles his wings
Sharp into the air,
But at last
Sinks to the ground,
His quarry lost,
And in the end,
Having gained nothing.