Three Poems

By Hajo Isa

 

Bird Eye

Your courage is sure,

I watch you swoop and twist above

The receding skyline.

 

Carelessly you glide,

Leaving the sweetness of stolen heaven.

 

Your humble fall,

Upon my barren lawn,

Cries your graceless return

 

I Run To You

 

You sooth my echo of weakness

You nest a kiss upon my true face,

Mocking my steady mirrored mind

Then you ruffle your wounded wings,

Ripple a charm in me.

 

I promise you now, tomorrow’s freedoms,

Fields of sky

The merry wind of heaven, be your guide

As you glide free, into heaven’s eye.

 

Butterfly

She knows the field,

Lightly, she springs from blade to blade

Her wings stung with light,

Sprightly,

As a fragile dawn

Come in to flower.

 

Awake

I grind my thoughts against the thread

My head beneath a stone pillow

Weighted by a passing caress.

 

Soft hunger, constrained fury

A biting memory looms above my barren bed

Awake in sleep, drifting lonely through the night.

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Hajo Isa is the author of a collection of poems titled “Shadow Fall”. She is currently working on another book titled ” Dancing Tongues”, and can be found on twitter at @aitadi.