Warbirds

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original poetry by Hive account@d-pend
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    with original art by Erik Shoemaker

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Warbirds

Gulls in rippling gleams:
Numinous spirit, receive my alms.
Elated celestial, dwarf me fragile
With soft, preternatural, calm.

Tufted, squamous, be-ridged by journeys,
A shuddering planet of hands.
On a pedestal, spinning, the marbled delight,
More wondrous than age demands.

Staggering sight, bewildering torrent
Of awe zoomorphically pure.
Flash puddle to pool to thund'ring fount:
Appeared in a portal obscure.

Now lisp of seafoam, cloying haze,
And clouds that cling on the lip
Of a fernleaf dragon aloft and pale
Sing freedom across a world-ship.

I can only imagine the rush of the wings—
Burning, limitless, wild.
Above in the firmament lit by soul
Where hopes and dreams lay mild.

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Poetry by
Hive account@d-pend
8–21–18
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Art by
  Erik Shoemaker
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  1 (and 4) ... "Glitch" [cropped]
  2 ... "Goblet of Giants"
  3 ... "Eclipse"

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_{Bright-sown skies, laced by phantasm—
Unshut, the eyes of innocence below
Beholding the glimmering world
Whisper pawed invocations
Through sand adazed...}

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