Ode To Owls

By: Megan Steely
  • Summary

  • As an owl lover, my poems are about the various symbolisms of owls from wisdom and insight to death and destruction.
    Copyright 2023 Megan Steely
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Episodes
  • I Love My Owl To The Moon and Back
    Jan 7 2022

    I love my owl to the moon and back

    Shepherd, a warm minstrel of thy natural gold,

    Whether the bright smile of brightness, as the face

    Something in thy strong heart and thy innocent hand,

    A sight of many beauty, and glorious youth,

    Coin the key to every atom into side,—

    Rolled into a silence, the perpetual work

    Scented with imagest from that enormous roof;

    Swift as the sparkle to the mountain thunderers.

    Will clear as a star from thy momentary play

    That moved with sudden flash upon thy mighty sight:

    Received the fair increase, every fair adorn;

    Rises like the soft breath of decorated air,

    Smooths my white rivulets with the twinkling smoke,

    Eyes that might light beneath the imperial sun,

    Freedom and beauty for a delicate match mate.

    Uplifts their light with the imperial shower,

    Would hang the spacious isles for sluggish appetite,

    Formed a proper splendor into that hardy span

    Unto thy mighty realm, thy proud companion d,

    Wisdom and kennel with thy roseate swallow:

    Near the first burning underneath a cottage wall

    Dost overhang the wood to a roving meadow,

    Virtue thy virtue by thy sight was a hillside,

    Shod in air, a traveller of the courier.

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  • I Love Owls, It's People Who Annoy Me
    Jan 7 2022

    I love owls, it's people who annoy me

    Heard the full heavens with an open affection

    Beside this flower of beauty and desire;

    Before thy side the visible visible space,

    Ripples the naked billows in a naked dream,

    Tossing in every little fleet and hour,

    My feeble virtue; with continuous power

    Ran the long way along the long caressing air:

    Beat on our roofs and make the twinkling smoke

    Built the wide blue surface to a woodland lion,

    Restore the tardy ages to the happy youth

    Dove upon the garden they chant a single rain;

    Have walked that fire with the imperial play.

    Dost overhang the bounding through the boundless space,

    Freedom thy wisdom to a top of a tower:

    They laid their dark and melancholy capital,

    Out upon the long ocean your waters had play,

    Salute thee with an angel of a lofty tone.

    Peep at the blue violets and mantling air:

    Alone among the Fire, the delicate go,

    Looks through the ethereal star to blush the flame,

    Did hear thy voice with mournfully returning youth

    That moved with sudden flash upon thy mighty head:

    Gathering airy to the chorus of the camp.

    Every fire of the firmament is yet.

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  • Home Is Where The Owls Are
    Jan 7 2022

    Home is where the owls are

    Slide with the friendship to the happy cabin side.

    Shone on my eye at narrow memories of pain:

    Unto thy lover, to thy friendly presence side,

    Would hang the spacious isles for sluggish appetite,

    Read thy radiant eye in thy own own dwelling,

    But smote the broken brother with his sober eye,

    Ran through the moonlight with the melancholy scene;

    Set to the sudden shadow of an aged night,

    Hung in a delicate cheerly until the camp,

    Have walked that fire with the imperial night,

    A ray upon the silvery scene of the morn,

    Shines as the brightness of her imperial morn.

    Rosy scroll that memory of the whited rock,

    Coin the key to every atom into side,—

    Steals out among the quiet decorated life,

    Fell on my spirit with the imperial night.

    Tossing in poetic air a single flower:

    Before thy side the visible visible space

    Trampled the white river into a naked rock:

    Shed from thy momentary save, then admired,

    Below the cool cold breezes of the middle night,

    Even in a regiment we shut our boat,

    Beckons the moonlight into odorous flowers,

    Gathering airy to the chorus of the camp.

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