Calm and ancient, a blunted beast
strolls along the verge.
It slowly gathers, in quiet and time,
blades to sate its bulk:
leath'ry walls, frightening mass all
caked in mud and strength.
(October 2020, December 2021)
Category: Poems
The Falcon’s Eyes
What do you see in the falcon's eyes?
This is no wandering heart, no listless gaze.
Look how the wind batters its face, ruffling its body in flight.
Apart from its will, it will not be moved.
The falcon remains, not swooping loose,
not crying out empassioned calls,
but steady, poised. There is purpose in those eyes.
Purpose which flows through its wings and tail.
Purpose brewed in the deep wells of its mind,
fixing its eyes to search intently,
and find.

