Robin’s Egg

Spring is a time of birth. We’ve probably all found an empty bird’s egg at one time of another, which means the bird hatched and is alive. But what of those eggs with a tiny curled foetus still in it? Sadness…

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ROBIN’S EGG                                                

shining, vivid blue
in the grass –

a robin lost
to summer’s sky

its mystery
a song unheard
a flight unseen

this fragile
silence

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