Posted on 07/01/2002 11:29:53 AM PDT by 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.
"The owl takes his roost on broken walls".
The Jews rebuild the Temple Mount.
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.
Close?
Dang, you made me cry, Sabertooth.
Thank you for sharing such a gift.
2. "The hour befalls our moments lacking count
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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."
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.
Pall, as in "cloak of darkness" over a coffin....and weary, tiresome. Ending.Getting close on the pun.
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'.(^:
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