THE YOUNG PHOENIX

It spreads its wings

but it does not fly.

It flexes its talons

but it does not rip.

It craves to know sky-freedom

but does not release the nest.



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....and just as suddenly

  it   is   gone  

But it will again fly in

as young and as fresh and as new: :





Oh, I gave you wings!!

Oh, if only I had known

that you would fly away

         so far!  

               so fast!!  

                      so soon!!!  

Author's Notes/Comments: 

To the memories of those Young, who left during their Andante, never knowing they would leave us all in  Adagio.

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Ernest Bevans's picture

Teddy;

It is the way loves goes...
Stuning and leaving
while triping and spinning
us in their whirlwind turns

But hopeful their is a spring
in which our love returns!

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May your pen always be so blessed
so light and always so free.