Witness

Standing in the Shadows, by Rick Mobbs

This week’s prompt at ReadWritePoem is to use an image by Rick Mobbs and write a poem inspired by it.

I chose Standing in the Shadows, by Rick Mobbs

 

Also, at Pen me a Poem, This week’s Poetry Prompt subject is “Birth”.With both assignments buzzing in my head, I submit the following:  

 

Witness

 

while we stood in awe

in the shadows of their wings

they graced this world

together

born with one heart

born of the heavens themselves

innocence shining bright

moonlight spun in waves about them

starlight caught in their hair

twin souls of purity

we turned away

even as our hearts cried with joy

for we were blessed with this moment

of their birth

and nothing more

we were the witness, not the miracle

with them, we could not fly