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The Black Swan
( a Sonnet )
As crickets stridulate while summer dies,
And so their generation as it fades,
The outline of a black swan mutely flies
To gentle glide through reeds of gentle glades.
Into the chorus of a million songs,
Identical and different in the words.
She settles, folds her wings where she belongs,
In coming back, disturbing other birds.
From spreading ripples to crescendo's crash,
The lover waits ashore to covet her.
Then calling back & forth in moonlit flash
Their courtship ritual between assured.
Sunrise, her quick eyes spy his prickly beard,
His black swan comes to preen, her lover sheared.
CopyrightŠ2015-2018 Jade Pandora. All Rights Reserved.
As crickets stridulate while summer dies,
And so their generation as it fades,
The outline of a black swan mutely flies
To gentle glide through reeds of gentle glades.
Into the chorus of a million songs,
Identical and different in the words.
She settles, folds her wings where she belongs,
In coming back, disturbing other birds.
From spreading ripples to crescendo's crash,
The lover waits ashore to covet her.
Then calling back & forth in moonlit flash
Their courtship ritual between assured.
Sunrise, her quick eyes spy his prickly beard,
His black swan comes to preen, her lover sheared.
CopyrightŠ2015-2018 Jade Pandora. All Rights Reserved.
Published 27th Nov 2015
| Edited 7th May 2018
Author's Note
Adoration... Fixation... Madness.
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16th May 2016 7:56pm
I didn't realise how many poems you have put on this site, had to search for this poem after the competition ended
17th May 2016 5:27am
