Today's word is "murmuration" ... mur-muh-REY-shuh n ... a flock of starlings.
Cloud
Sudden sky fills with movement.
Birds in thousands, soar and turn
in flight as if guided by one mind.
They close and darken,
open and let light leek
through uncountable openings.
A living, black and white
kaleidoscope of shape,
making and remaking
itself in mysterious patterns.
This murmuration is understood
only by the aviators.
The rest of us arrange ourselves in awe,
privileged to gape at them
in earthbound wonder.
Anne Selleck
Copyright 2016
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