Resurrection Bird
In the night, you are
A frozen bubble of air—
A still corpse reposing
In your green tomb.
Then the morning sun
Ignites your iridescent feathers,
Resurrecting you into a blurred
Blast of energy.
You dance from plant to plant—
Wings rapidly beating—
A frantic ballerina, you flit
Up and down, backwards and forwards,
Hovering in front of my face,
Taunting me.
As dusk creeps in with soft feet,
You retreat to your leafy crypt,
Becoming an inanimate, tiny jewel,
Poised to burst forth with the dawn,
Flaunting your colors.
About this poem
This is a poem from my latest collection "Celestial Symphony" (June 2022), available on Amazon in Kindle and Paperback formats.
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 527 |
Words | 101 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 19 |
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