Bird Calls

July 1st, 2002 | Sabertooth

[Sabertooth]

Bird Calls

An olive tree bestrides a cracking mount,
Its blackened boughs bescrawled by dirty talons.
The hour befalls our moments lacking count…
A predawn pall of dark and light imbalanced.

An owl hoots alone. Where is his query?
What pang predates his instinct that he prays?
When awe lives in his eyes that makes him tarry
Upon the branch an instant… Who delays.

A thief would find no watchmen there to look,
But in the air's deduced unspoken calls.
The raven caws to find his master's brook.
The owl takes his roost on broken walls.

The cock crows East. Again…. Impending portent.
The hidden Sun's increased beyond the Jordan.

[Sabertooth]

That's Israel and the Temple Mount.

Score 1.

What else about the Mount?

[Sungirl]

I need help understanding this one.....

[Aquamarine]

What else about the Mount?

"The owl takes his roost on broken walls".

The Jews rebuild the Temple Mount.

[Sabertooth]

"The owl takes his roost on broken walls".

The Jews rebuild the Temple Mount.

Nope. Maybe try to figure out the other birds first.
The owl's gonna be tricky... different city altogether.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Its blackened boughs bescrawled by dirty talons.
Palestinians, graffiti-covered walls of the temple mount...the olive tree in enemy territory, scorched, but standing,
The hour befalls our moments lacking count…
Soon...the Kingdom without end...
A predawn pall of dark and light imbalanced.
But first, all nations rise up (darkness) against Israel (light)...

Close?

Dang, you made me cry, Sabertooth.
Thank you for sharing such a gift.

[Neuromancer]

THE HIDDEN SUN

Dark wings cross the sky

Masters call to ancient fowl

- Roll Jordan roll by...

[Snow Bunny]

Hi Saber, this is beautiful. Thank you.

[Sabertooth]

1. "Its blackened boughs bescrawled by dirty talons."
Palestinians, graffiti-covered walls of the temple mount...the olive tree in enemy territory, scorched, but standing,

2. "The hour befalls our moments lacking count…"
Soon...the Kingdom without end...

3. "A predawn pall of dark and light imbalanced."
But first, all nations rise up (darkness) against Israel (light)...

1. Nope. Think about the "dirty talons."
2. Yep, pretty much.
3. Yeah, that's the physical manifiestation of the spiritual. Think about "pall."

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

About the dirty talons...

Unclean birds of scripture, in Deuteronomy 11:19 and Leviticus 11:13 (I cheated): eagle, owl, hawk, osprey, stork, raven, vulture, kite, bat(?), pelican, heron, cormorant..

For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together... Matt. 24:28 In those last, terrible days...

Could be a homonym for "dirty talents", or dirty money...the unearned $$$ funding terrorism..

or Ariel Sharon's nickname, Hawk, an old warrior of past, similar battles to hold his country.

Pall, as in "cloak of darkness" over a coffin....and weary, tiresome. Ending.

[Sabertooth]

Could be a homonym for "dirty talents", or dirty money...the unearned $$$ funding terrorism..

Getting close on the pun.

Pall, as in "cloak of darkness" over a coffin....and weary, tiresome. Ending.

What's between the Eastern Gate and the Mount of Olives?

[Aquamarine]

Petra?
I don't have it all figured out...just that it's a prophesy riddle.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

What's between the Eastern Gate and the Mount of Olives?

The Garden of Gethsemane? I'm going to pray for wisdom now....and maybe actually do some learnin'.(^:

[.30Carbine]

This is a dark work from you, Sabertooth. I am brought into dark places in my own remembrance in the reading. This darkness surprises me, but not the power to evoke it in your word play. Thank you for the ping. I love to read your works.

[Dubya]

Thanks for this one. NICE.