Listen Up
I heard a bird
but, looking for it
in the thick brush,
was useless.
And trying to interpret
the mood of the song,
whether cheerful, fearful or tearful
was equally as impossible.
There are other lives than mine.
There are meanings unfathomable
to my sentience, my intellect.
So much of this world
I have no way into.
Pretty tune though.
John Grey
John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in Sheepshead Review, Stand, Poetry Salzburg Review and Hollins Critic. Latest books, “Leaves On Pages” “Memory Outside The Head” and “Guest Of Myself” are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in Ellipsis, Blueline and International Poetry Review.