Heron Wings
For Justin Heron
heron wings floating
caressing clouds softly, they
glide through hot air drafts
.
shoulders extended
painting shadows, blanketing
ripples and swimmers
.
patterns on water
criss-cross slits of black and blue,
cobalt tipped feathers
.
soaring up into
the palace of the sun, bills
of light sunshine straw
.
cradling newborn and
ancient in the crest of its
eyes. spiritual friend.
.
wing-tips touching souls
of those past and gone, sending
onwards and beyond
— by Emily Ramser
Copyright © 2012, by Emily Ramser. All Rights Reserved.
Emily Ramser is a high school author living part time between North Carolina and California. She has been published in a small school anthology as well as in the online lit magazine, The Crocodile Journal. She also works with Stage of Life as a featured blogger and on the team of a local magazine based at Living Word Church. She wishes to be published so that she might touch the world with her words.