A Mourning Dove Trembles

By lupus tenebrae

A mourning dove
trembles, unseen,
perched somewhere

between a mess 
of bramble and a 
lonesome country road:

it laments for a moment
longer, then grows distant;
trailing off, mid-song.

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Copyright 2014 lupus tenebrae
Published on Friday, April 25, 2014.     Filed under: "Poetry"

Author's Note:

Day 25, of my National Poetry Month: Poem-A-Day Marathon.
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