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Synchronisation -
trying to outrun the wind
swifts turning quickly

follow the leader
fleeting moments of flocking
ducking & diving

three dozen arced wings
all acting with sentience -
collectively dart.

Midnight fox looks back
with vulpine furtivity -
so surreptitious.

Perspicacity -
The windows of perception
often need cleaning.

Sun rising today
bright yellow shiny button -
the day's eye of hope.

Bluebell Wood was always heaven
And I would spend so much time there
Even being only seven
We knew a paradise so fair,
Times of innocently playing
Often when it was not raining,
Those bluebells grew in clumps so small
A wonder they were seen at all.
Then one day with playful banter
Each from his village neighbourhood
As we approached our verdant wood
A sign proclaimed: ‘Do Not Enter!’
Stopping suddenly in ...