Birds, Feathers and Metaphors

Hope is the thing with feathers –
like a bird of prey, the profile of night
& what if hope crashes through the door what if

I won’t give in to the dark
Birds are singing the sky into place
The earth rolls beneath our feet

when they said those birds were metaphors
(There are birds here, so many birds here) what I was trying to say
There are so many fragile things. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.

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Oh, dear, I didn’t read the directions closely enough. I think I was supposed to use dverse poets’ poems but didn’t. Still at least it is a cento.

dverse April Poems Bring May Centos Posted by Melissa Lemay

Lines from:
Hope is the thing with feathers, Emily Dickenson
Facing It, Yusef Komunyakaa    
Elegy, Mong-Lan

Your Luck Is About To Change, Susan Elizabeth Howe
For Keeps, Joy Harjo
Of the Threads that Connect the Stars, Martín Espada

First two lines of third stanza – There Are Birds Here, Jamaal May
Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things, Quote