Hummingbird

by Colm   Feb 2, 2011


When did the hummingbird become mendacious?
Between the revelry I must have missed something,
I must have missed it unbecoming.

And still, now, how I must be ambisinister,
when finches and crows and sparrows laugh,
when how I pursue to be as past.

But I only seek my hummingbird.
I only seek
what I don't think I can have.

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  • 13 years ago

    by xoxShorteexox

    Eh, I loved the hummingbird reference especially at the end. It just put a nice metaphor into what you want and I could see a hummingbird floating off the page as silly as that sounds.

    5/5

    -Heather

  • 13 years ago

    by Courageous Dreamer

    When finches and crows and sparrows laugh,
    when how I pursue to be as past.
    ^Most interesting part for me.

    The rest of the poem was kind of too complex for me personally, not sure why. Some words I had to look up. I think when you have such a short poem like this it's better to use simplicity. At least with this here, as you kind of shadowed the meaning for me, I wasn't quite sure what you were trying to say.. except for the last stanza actually kind of summed it up in a simple, easy way so it was easier to understand. However I guess I didn't really grasp your words here. Could probably use a more interesting title too, didn't really lure me in.

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