Celebrating Fall & meditating on the flight of birds (original pictures & poem)

Starlings

Hypnotic like a school of airborne fish
they frolic about in the open sky
flickering into focus and diffusing
back to the ether that spawned them

Gathering like a storm and breaking in waves
raining hard a downpour of butterflies
flitting like a great kite, giddy it got away
but guided by a steady and invisible hand

How do they know to spell such exalted shapes
fluid arabesques across the stage of heaven
as they swarm and glide as though of one mind
a soundless symphony, mysteriously conducted...

© Yahia Lababidi, author of Learning to Pray