Photo Credit: Tracey Grumbach of Nine Acres Designs
Courtesy dVerse Poets Pub
Beady-Eyed
It takes a single look
down for the eye to pick up
how blue bends
into a mountain's green
topside. Space emptied
of enough light
only frames an impression.
Cut loose and hungering,
a trio of ravens calls
out the spot to circle,
telegraphing one or the other
choice the hunter makes.
© 2012 Maureen E. Doallas
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This is my response to a photo prompt challenge at dVerse Poets Pub, where writers have a choice of images on which to base a poem. Go here to read about the prompt, view Maryland-based Tracey Grumbach's images, and drop a link to your own contribution.
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4 comments:
nice visual of the blue bending to green maureen...def looks like they have tonights meal...or at least they hope...smiles.
Crows so smart, with such a vocabulary, would need none when beginning the dive to target - as you say- with their beady eyes. Love the economy of language to accompany the photograph, Maureen. Lean, minimal, accurate. Wonderfully written.
i agree with gay about the economy of language which makes it all the more effective...you made me see the world, sky, mountain through their eyes..
Where we focus our attention is all, which your poem shows so well.
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