Poetry

This month's homework at my writing group, Wombourne Writers was poetry. I have had some poems published over the years but it's been a while since I last wrote anything but fiction so I found it quite a challenge to put my poetry cap back on :) Here's the end result...

Bird of Prey

Silent vigil,

Upon the fence,

No time for flight

Or common sense.

Bird song

Now hushed.

It bides it’s time,

No need to rush,

It knows we fear

What will come.

I fear I am

Now undone

For under it’s

Watchful gaze,

Our lives already

Have slipped away.

Spiteful beak,

I watch with awe.

It readies now

A talloned claw.

Caught, trapped,

I’m mesmerised,

Looking deep into

It’s yellow eyes.

Bright, yet cruel

Sight so keen,

Within those orbs

My last moments seen.