Crow
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Dark winged messenger
Silhouetted at daybreak
Seldom overlooked
Superstition notices
Portents anticipated
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Battle-weary birds
Returning old death to life
Much mistunderstood
Offering a final gift
Complete for us the cycle
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Thought and memory
Mingled and confused recall
Old fears and folk tales
Still branded with prejudice
Watching mankind with sorrow
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The photo for this week’s prompt was taken on my back doorstep, one wintery dawn. The crow was silhouetted against a shell-pink sky…an irresistable shot, but although pretty, it lacked something…hence the black and white version.
Thank you so much to everyone who took part this week.
As always, I have shared as many contributions as I could during the week, but the sheer volume of entries we are getting now makes it impossible to reblog all of them! I schedule reblogs as posts come in, until I run out of space. All the posts are listed below, please click on the links below to read them and leave a comment for the author!
A new prompt will be published later today and I will reblog as many as I can through the week. All contributions will be featured in the round-up on Thursday.
If you have written a post for this challenge and it does not appear in the round-up, please leave a link to your post in the comments and I will add it to the list.
Come and join in!
Many thanks to this weeks contributors:
Jordan Corley at Unpredictable Affairs
Divya Chatty at The World in my Eyes
Vivian Zems at Smell the Coffee
Denise Aileen DeVries at Bilocalalia
Anurag at Jagah Dil Mein Honi Chahiye
Fandango at This, That and the Other
Daniel C. Julian at Word Florilegium
Joelle LeGendre at Two on a Rant
Ritu Bhathal at But I Smile Anyway
Kim Russell from Writing in North Norfolk
Hayley R. Hardman at The Story Files
Reblogged this on Die Erste Eslarner Zeitung – Aus und über Eslarn, sowie die bayerisch-tschechische Region!.
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Thank you
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Thanks for sharing 😉
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Great takes, yet again Sue!
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And the number seems intent on rising 🙂
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It does indeed!!!
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Reblogged this on The Militant Negro™.
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Thank you for sharing 🙂
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Wonderful poem about these misunderstood birds, Sue. And “wow” to the response! That’s awesome. 🙂
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Thanks, Diana…and yes… just incredible the number of responses!
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