New Poetry by Anthony Vernon

Birds

Terror Birds

Bird songs come from terror

They are screams

And cries of fear

Each note a desperation

Every tune a panic

Melodies are but anxieties

Chirps are but worries

And all flights are frights

As bird songs only come from terror birds

Window Birds

Like a bird to a window

I’ll fly into you now

Thoughts of coming through

Crush dead onto the ground

Found are feathers, blood, and bone

A dying alone

And a cry towards the transparent

But the words aren’t apparent

To a barrier to all but shight

That brings an end to flight

Kite Mountain

Sons are birds

Flying up and over mountains

But not before they breathe their mother’s body

Then their wings are born

And the old lungs are forgotten

And when I flew

You cried til the night

Then in your dreams

You clipped my wings

Keeping me in my cage

Where a bird’s flight is forgotten

- © Anthony Vernon 2022

Anthony David Vernon is a Cuban-American literary writer and master's level philosophy student at the University of New Mexico. He is a regularly published author of poetry along with short stories and philosophical articles in a variety of outlets. His premiere book is The Assumption of Death a hybrid work of poetry, short stories, and philosophical musings.