Daniela Oana - Poet and Photographer

FEATURED POEM 

 

Birdhouse 

 

In my dream, we couldn’t speak

But my eyes, this, could recount:

 

You pushed towards me a pile

Of wood and beams in disarray:

Your house, in a mound of rubble

Your eyes, in ruins post collapse.

 

Though no doorframe stood upright,

You nailed a mourning black drape
To hang above your door,

Too soon deeming your fate doomed.

 

My fair fingers begged to differ

And searched through your fallen pieces

As though skimming over your soft hand

To hold and lift you all back up.

 

Befriending the ruins in your eyes,

Your threshold soon was found

Now in place, to welcome you

And beam by beam, your walls rebuilt.

 

Now your new house faced the sun

For a narrow path now led you there

And though the mere size of a birdhouse

It housed your kind, enormous soul.