Resurrection of the Bird
It will fly into the oblivion it knows rather than the one it doesn’t willingly, composed, at ease, as if returning home the prodigal child of the sky forgiven at last conceived in a whim of light absolved by the sun reconciled with its destiny as certain as the stars so far from land it doesn’t know its way it waits for resurrection as its primal right. Neil Ellman Neil Ellman, a poet from New Jersey, has published more than 1,000 ekphrastic poems in print and online journals, anthologies and chapbooks throughout the world. His collections include chapbooks devoted exclusively to the works of Paul Klee, Matta and others.
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Norbert Kovacs
5/17/2017 07:01:20 pm
This poem offers an interesting meld of religious and ecological metaphor.
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