Thursday, May 21, 2020

nest


chirping birds
her morning song
they flew away
leaving her heart
a vacant nest




13 comments:

  1. You evoke a tale of love gained and lost in an economy of five lines! Excellent!

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  2. The metaphor of the heart as a nest is great! :)

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  3. Very nice! I guess birds songs are too light to remain in a nest! Nice images.

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  4. I like your description of the heart as a nest.

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  5. Leaving the vacant nest to the very end makes such an impact, Maria!

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  6. Splendid use of the prompt and this lovely form.

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  7. this made me focus on each time one of my children left the nest for a life of his/her own. Very nice.

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  8. Silence or absence can become very obvious when we realize what has left it behind.

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  9. That kind of change hurts :( Very skillfully done.

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  10. This touches my heart as my fourth son just left our nest...

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  11. leaving her heart
    a vacant nest

    Sometimes we are forced into certain decisions not of choice!

    Hank

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