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Thank you very much 🙏

Thank you so much, Merril 😊

I've found that too. Poems sometimes just don't want to be optimistic!

A worrying world. Cleverly done, Bernard.

This doesn't have your usual optimistic edge, Merril - but then, given how things are, why would it?

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Thank you so much, Rachel.

The word 'deluded' springs to mind. But thanks, Ju 😘

Thank you, Jane 😊

Thank you very much, Bernard. 😊

So vivid, that capture of the kill - I've witnessed similar - and I like the drawing out from it in the second stanza - how we can move from observation to wider thinking...

'the subtle art of giving in' - clever, twisting piece, Ann.

The scene, the behaviour of people, wonderfully captured, David.

What a clever twist!

Thank you so much, Ann.

Thank you very much, again 🙏

You're very welcome, Jan. Yes, I thought I'd seen them before.

Brilliant, Rachel! Love the 'dank-eyed' versus the 'yellow-ducked' 😊👍👏

Such wonderful, dark images, Jan - corvids will always have that power. 🖤

Corvus Agonistes Famished Corvid triad Poised to Sup on a Slain king: Bones to House them, Hair to Nest them, Flesh to Feed them. Now they Perch outside our Window, poised to Claim us as we Falter. And Falter we will – in the Steady flux of Mood, air and Fortune. That Nevermore mania from Pluto’s coal-black shore Occulting the pallid Cast of Reason. That Black Shuck Handle for crippling Despond shadowing his Stride through Whitehall and Chartwell, Keening upon the heels of Gallipoli. That Jackdaw-pun Insignia of Family omen in Prague – a Mind stalling at Minds sharing his Inner plight. He Pictures such people – but cannot Picture the secret corbie that Circles his head Circling theirs. Absurd, malevolent Worlds he creates, Inflecting the Absurd, malevolent Worlds we create when we Fixate on figures of Light, neglecting the Night we bracket and Beget. Shadows deepen in the Deathly shallows, Offsetting that Fable-fetish of Unmitigated felicity, Wherein the Demonic can gain Ingress - City-upon-the-Hill Beacon for Ear-cut, hang-witch Massacre. ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2026 Partly inspired by The Three Corbies, a traditional Scottish ballad, Edgar Allan Poe and Franz Kafka.

"Twa Corbies" - illustration by G. Howell-Baker from his book, Penholm (1901)

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Always a poem worth waking up for from Roger! ⭐

Brilliant, Roger - and what a last line! 👏😁👍

Thank you so much, David.

What a lovely comment. Thank you so much, Jan. 😊

Thank you so much, Roger. 😊

I bet you're the only one who does remember it. Thank you so much, Ju.

Thank you, Mike.

Thank you very much, John 🙏

Wonderful, Debbie 👏