artspark A broad topic: Hope. Extra credit for any use of feathers.
A Handful of Feathers
Hoping for kisses
Your eyelids tremble, lashes
Like two black feathers.
Tear-wet, ink feathers
The letter's painful pages.
She hopes you'll answer.
When her mortal soul
Was weighed against a feather
Hope-lightened, it rose.
On his featherbed
She hopes he will be gentle.
If not gentle, quick.
Sun bright on feathers
The starlings gather, hopeful.
You scatter your crumbs.
