Eight-line Poems

Starlings

Starlings

In autumn the starlings gather,
massed in flocks of thousands,
dark, amorphous shadows
expanding and contracting
in the grey and overcast sky,
a single mind controlling the nature of the dance.
Their wings beat like rain on our ears,
their voices the bubbling streams of earth.


Line Count: 8
Free Verse
For Express It In Eight, October 21 2020
Prompt: The first of the video links.