Poetry Thursday

Peacock Feather

~Effie Lee Newsome

 

Heav’n’s deepest blue,

Earth’s richest green,

Minted dust of stars,

Molten sunset sheen,

Are blent together

On this lithe brown feather,

In a disc of light—

Lithe, light!

This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on June 21, 2020 by the Academy of American Poets.