“The angel of the birds” by Franz Dvorak (1862-1927)
It happened once
I don’t know where
Perhaps a dream
I know ’twas fair
About an heir who played in air
Around her flew two doves, a pair
At night they slept in a tree, a pear
With moonlight blankets of silver flair
Morning flood sunlight bare
Warm on feathers, as on hair
Heir climbed down, walked to the square
Found coffee, rolls, and people there
They asked, “Dear One, live you earth or air?”
She giggled, said, “Neither here nor there.
I go where love doves lead me fair
Once I landed on a bear.”
Sarah is the host of Mindlovemisery Menagerie’s Saturday Mix. Sarah says:
This week I am introducing a new challenge to the Saturday Mix – ‘Rhyme Time‘.
‘Rhyme Time’ focuses on the use of rhyme to build your writing piece. You will be given six rhyming words* and need to use all of them (but not limited to these) in your response, which should be a poetry form of your choice.
*Homophones can be used as alternatives to the challenge words.
Our rhyming words this week are:
square- air
- bare (or bear)
- flare (or flair)
- pair (or pear)
- fair (or fare)
Nice to find coffee and rolls after climbing down a tree 🙂
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Yes it is 🙂
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Cool rhyme.
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Thank you, I enjoyed writing it 🙂
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It’s wonderful.
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That poem is so good!
I love this part:
“At night they slept in a tree, a pear
With moonlight blankets of silver flair”
Swooning over the phrase “love doves.” ❤
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🙂 Glad you enjoyed the poem, thanks.
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You wrote ease and flair! Not normally a fan of forcing rhyme I played to with Fuzzy Wuzzy in One Bear’s Affair?. But I guess we’ll all have some bear to bare… ad’dressed’ or not. 🙂
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lol love your comment, Jules
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I love your ending, “Once I landed on a bear.”
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Thanks, Jim, the prompt made me do it.
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Wow. I’m impressed.
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Thanks much, Ted!
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Well that was just lovely!
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Thank you, Melanie!
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I love her reply ‘neither here nor there’ that sense of , don’t box it in, live into the moment.
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It was a fun write and I was feeling that very thing when I wrote it.
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Wonderful
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