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Birds in the Night

July 23, 2010
By quirks SILVER, Kingwood, Texas
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Favorite Quote:
&quot;After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.&quot;<br /> &quot;The trouble is, humans do have a knack for choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.&quot;<br /> -Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer&#039;s Stone; JKRowling

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Birds' singing as the sun ascends
Is nothing very new
Simply a worn cliché
Familiar, with morning dew.

But rarely I have heard the chirp
Of birds in the peak of night
Tilted flourishes just as pert
But heard in darkened sight.

A whistle of life
In the stilling silence
Strangely tonic to my heart
A ripple in the flat black sense
A ripple soon to part.

© Sean C., Princeton, IL

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quirks SILVER said...
on Sep. 4 2010 at 3:21 pm
quirks SILVER, Kingwood, Texas
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Favorite Quote:
&quot;After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.&quot;<br /> &quot;The trouble is, humans do have a knack for choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.&quot;<br /> -Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer&#039;s Stone; JKRowling

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Thanks so much--that really means a lot to me!
Thesilentraven PLATINUM said...
on Sep. 4 2010 at 3:15 pm
Thesilentraven PLATINUM, Mableton, Georgia
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Favorite Quote:
&quot;il piu nell&#039; uno,&quot; (according to Emerson, an Italian expression for beauty)<br /> <br /> &quot;Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality&quot; ~Emily Dickinson<br /> <br /> &quot;The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain&quot; <br /> ~Kahlil Gibran

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I am stunned; this is a wonderful poem. I find merely the idea of it to be very clever and charming, but you also wrote the words so cleverly and... well, it's hard to describe. Just know that I love this work.