WATCHERS
OF THE SUN
This
short poem describes a scene that leads to a final line that is an
observation but carries some metaphorical sense. Scarecrows are like
the "hollow men... headpiece stuffed with straw" of T.S.
Eliot's The Hollow
Men. Obviously
facing the light they cannot see it as they have no sight or even
awareness. Yet I feel there is something more about this image but
I'm not quite sure what it is.
WATCHERS OF THE SUN
Feather clouds are stilled by
windless silence.
Within wide distance gathered
starlings fly;
As one form weaving,
black-pattern the blue sky.
Some contemplative cows mull
over grass.
Two sunlit scarecrows, one
brown and one of white,
Are staring eyeless towards
eye-blinding light.
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