PassingFeathers

I hear you ask my name, but it couldn’t matter less: It’s the Fate of all Pigeons, which now I do address.

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@RolandoTillit @notworkerror @MiamiPD Wow, way to blame the victim, without any knowledge of the situation.

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@MiamiPD As a cyclist living in that neighborhood, I'm curious if there are any updates on this situation?

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I reach the glowing chamber, with lungs that heave for breath,
The beast below awakens, and I’m staring at my death.
The glowing chamber sits atop a growling #metal beast,
And with its glowing eyes, it makes my corpse a feast.

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Directly there in front of me, a single golden glow,
And within a wall of glass — it seems from long ago —
There hangs a single #feather, perfect in outline,
Suspended in the glass, a sure and perfect sign.

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I start forward sure in step: I understand the way!
The light flickers to a halt, all becoming black decay.
I stand confused and blinking as around me #darkness reigns,
But hope is swelling in my heart, for there a #light remains.

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“This way!” he calls, and disappears into the shade;
I raise myself from crumbling brick, admittedly dismayed.
But as I take a falt’ring step, there came to be a light;
It lit the path before me, in ghostly lines of white.

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Then from the light a cooing cry, resonant and sweet,
The First Among the #Pigeons, wings pounding a heartbeat,
Floating down from the gap through which roughly I had slipped.
He flies through the darkness encircling the crypt.

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@minouette Many #pigeons roost together there,
and not an single box is bare;
the last to come, indecisive in the air,
must decide which box it is he'll share.

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Holding close the golden #key, I say a final prayer;
Then trip, fall, and go sailing through the air.
All is dark and all is black, the air is thick with dust
The only light a little hole, out of reach or trust.

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@warn_dru Do you ever wonder why they gather there,
sitting sentinel, so tense, all aware?
What is it they are watching for,
what omen that we only can ignore?

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@13_Pigeons_ Rough is the gesture and stroke,
such a sense of life does invoke.

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The #metal monster comes at me, standing as if dumb,
Its front is blinding light, its heart a pounding drum.
I feel the fiery breath, and then begin to run,
It chases me down empty streets, I’m sure that I am done.

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@PIT_Taubenherz There is great kindness within you,
and so thanks we give with gentle coo.

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I slowly stand, the #pigeons storming ‘round,
A swirling thunder grey with noise, flapping wings resound.
I clutch the #key tight in hand as pigeons rise to sky
Then all are gone, and I am left alone, awry.

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@PlaviGmaz He tell you a secret of great weight:
There is a journey long and hard
down darkened street and boulevard,
To save the #pigeons from their fate.

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“To you, Oh Last of Man, I give this metal flower,
It is an ancient thing, a symbol of old power.”
He tosses with his beak, high into #feathered air,
For me to catch with startled hand and softly whispered prayer.

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The other birds dance too, cavorting to and fro,
They coo and cry and peck, and worry my shadow;
The leader bird, frantic pecking in a crack I did not see,
Pulls forth, triumphant, a glittering-golden #key.

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@icecream80810 a beautiful homage
to a feathered friend;
a stand-in for the real
if you only can pretend.

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@13_Pigeons_ A truer friend you cannot have
than a #pigeon on the wing;
they are smarter than we know,
and connected to everything.

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@riverconriocht "The pigeon only grins"
is the thing I said,
but I never pictured teeth
clenched within his head!