No Need for Seeing Eyes

Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem

Bird thou ever wert

You do not need to see the lark when song

Fills air and sky.  His voice alone prevents

That need.  His strength alone pulls heart along

From loneliness.  His voice alone presents

Enough of beauty and of hope.  To see

Him, he himself, is not required.

You know this when you hear his jubilee.

You know that life itself has been inspired

By hidden holiness like his in eons past

And will continue with his notes though heard

By others like yourself when you have passed.

This lark is singing like a seer bird.

  He saw the past, he sees the present, sees

    The future fields where songs will fill the breeze.