An Eye For An Eye

Cecilia Crasto 1947 (Sydney)



Angry magpie swoops
And with clinical precision
Removes my right eye
Frantically I search
It lies on the dewy grass
Blinking at the sun
Hasten to surgery
It's inserted
A Magpie's eye...!

About this poem

The poem is based on my close encounters with these pesky Magpies as I walk through my local park!

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Written on March 10, 2022

Submitted by cecilia.crasto.au on March 09, 2022

Modified by cecilia.crasto.au on March 17, 2022

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Scheme ABCDEBFGC
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 186
Words 32
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 9

Cecilia Crasto

I'm a mature lady (mentally 20) and enjoy listening to music, gardening and writing poetry in that order! more…

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