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Encounter with an Eagle
The eagle looked me in the eye
was it contempt I saw
or just the cold dark of a killer
scorning my reflection
This face-off in the dunes
surprised us both
and in a year of moments
all our language bled dry
No stranger to blood you
though we didn't speak of it
while I drank sheen and gloss
you flexed a feathered foot
Tensing your armoury
claws sharp as whippets
musing this trap you sprang
from dread and beckoning sky
One gulp of air and you were home
perfection mastering horizons
to strand me foolish
clumsy-toed in sinking sand
Published 20th Jan 2010
| Edited 27th Mar 2016
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Anonymous
20th Jan 2010 12:50pm
Weird and yet profoundly insightful poem. "In a year of moments". That line was beautiful.
Anonymous
20th Jan 2010 1:05pm
poem that appals and moves, i love the last stanza especially.
20th Jan 2010 1:35pm
Not quite sure how you could be appalled by my description of this encounter with a bird on a wild part of the coast in Portugal, Priya - but no matter I thank you as always for your kind words.
Anonymous
20th Jan 2010 1:39pm
I think she may have meant "appeals", Abra. I do stuff like that all the time, where I misspell a word and then suffer for it later!
20th Jan 2010 1:55pm
Of course - now you point it out, how obvious it appears to my feeble brain. Thank you Jack (not the first time that's happened - my brain not the typos) It's also a tad scary - all meaning decided in an alien world of straying fingers.
PS - thank you for your own kind remarks about the poem which were overlooked in this flurry of typo fever!
PS - thank you for your own kind remarks about the poem which were overlooked in this flurry of typo fever!
Anonymous
20th Jan 2010 2:12pm
so sorry , i meant appeals ofcoz, i guess my fingers have a life of their own, forgive pls A and thank you Jack for clearing me.
20th Jan 2010 2:19pm
I have this picture of you constantly rushing and multi-tasking, Priya - so I understand completely - no forgiveness required (in fact there's nothing like a bit of confusion once in a while!)
