Raven’s Call

Knight alone travels

Through crystalline snow mounds, high

Every step frozen

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Sorrow’s songbird weeps

Sings sweet memories of days

Without branch or sky

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Starlit amber eyes

Rest in slivered moonlight ray

Distant love divides

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Limp maple leaves swept

Between piles of summer past

Where lost beauty rests

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Vines linger and twist

Cedar choked in living green

Strong, tall and near dead

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Stones cross river cold

Stuck and stagnant in iced blue

A hard fragile path

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Raven bride dances

Dark veil swaying in harsh wind

Alone mourning wings

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Clipped by hope of sun

As summer of fairy dreams

Hid behind shadows

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Rose garden scent flows

Message to lost wanderer

Mistook for thrown thorns

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The thunder loud roars

Lion in imprisoned den

Sky, dark blood stained paws

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Fights this dark of knight

When about daylight beckons

Pure crystal turned black

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Still she sings, raven

Her voice unmoved by winter

Calling sunlight home

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by Samantha Craft

June 2012