Center Fire Poetry
Scott DuRoff's Poetic Musings on Life, Love and Death
  • Poetry Talk
  • The Unrung Bell
  • One Bit of Difference
  • Some Time to Kill
  • Old Stones
  • Home
  • Slipping Away
  • Mockingbird
  • Seeds
  • Barstools
  • Easy Grace
  • Mineral Man
  • The Skinny Branches
  • Why Not?
  • The Priestess
  • Autumn
  • For Now and Forever
  • Reliable Foundations
  • The Right To Folly
  • A New Recruit
  • Yes!
  • All The Angles
  • Happy Fourth Of July
  • The Gravity of Being
  • My Love
  • Make The Trade
  • The Horns of the Minotaur
  • Walking Away
  • Anywhere But Here
  • Meat Dance
Picture
Mocking Bird
 
Dark gray skies
Raindrops pounding
The roof like an interrogator
Beating a suspect
In search of a confession
 
Thunder cracking
As if Judgment Day
Finally arrived holds us
To account for our
Callow narcissism
 
Wounded sex bleeds
With undisguised agony
At long last free
To grieve the dying
Of the light
 
Above the deafening
Indictment of the raindrops
The trilling of the Mocking Bird
Rises joyously celebrating
The sheer pleasure of being alive
 
Without doubt or excuse
This little bundle of feathers
And bone insists on singing
Out its pleasure upon this
First Autumn rain
 
Am I awake enough
To accept the lesson
That everything is temporary
That God is change
That tears are sacred
 
That redemption
While nowhere in sight
Is just around the corner.
 

Scott DuRoff  10/2018
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