Full circle (Triple Etheree) (HM)

Twist
And turn
Sky-diving
Swallows fly, glide;
Dancing, romancing -
Ice-skating the currents,
Like a sky figure of eight.
They chase and catch select insects
Within their (size of a green pea) throats
From Steeple to field they feast in the sun.

Blighty welcomes these feathered, flighty friends,
For they've travelled far, a deathly feat;
From Africa through the Congo,
'cross baking desert beneath.
They feed whilst on the wing,
Side by side they're strong,
'though some will fall,
like, sad tears
to the
Sea.

Land
Ahead.
Dover's cliffs
Promising dreams
Of nesting courtships,
Where they will tend their young
And demonstrate the ballet
Of the swallow, scoring the blues,
Like the Calligrapher's swirling nib
The last letter's tail returns home again.

M.Moran
13.7.15

Etheree, created about twenty years ago by an Arkansas poet named Etheree Taylor Armstrong, this titled form, the Etheree, consists of ten lines of unmetered and unrhymed verse, the first line having one syllable, each succeeding line adding a syllable, with the total syllable count being fifty-five.This concise form is meant to focus on one idea or subject.