Monday, April 29, 2013

NaPoWriMo 2013, Day #29 - birds of prey

Urgh! only two more days to go!

A fantasy tale today. A dark fantasy piece.








birds of prey


we wait
for the dusk
to scatter
the last of the
light

on cliff edges
that was once
the bastions
of mighty
citadels

and as the
last shards
of light splinter
and fall like
broken glass

we stretch
our wings the leather
taut with muscles
leap off
the precipice

soar over
the smoke & ruins
of a world
torched by
atomic fire.


29/04/2013
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© cheong lee san ( dsnake1 ), 2013

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

It is dark : ) a post apocoliptic scene ( which I'm sure I spelled incorrectly ) ...that has me wondering if this is a genre you are interested in or is this how you are feeling at the end of this Looooonnnng poetic journey. Do not despare....one more day!!!!!!!
"Fall like broken glass", beautiful!
Lynn

Ravenblack said...

I haven't read them all but when I do drop in, I'm enjoying what you post on the day. Awesome job well achieved, dsnake!!

This one does make one wonder what happened with the world.

dsnake1 said...

Lynn,

i like to read sci-fi, so yes, maybe this is a genre that i am interested in. but not all sci-fi is post apocalyptic.

oh yes, this poetic journey is getting too looonng. :) one more post!
thanks for the support during the journey!


Liz,

thank you!

it's scary, isn't it? not just nuclear. biological and chemical too.