Wings of silver

Chapter 2: WINGS

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About This Book

The collection presents spiritual and nature-centered lyric poems that use images of flight, birds, and weaving to explore life, faith, and immortality. Through meditations on growth, seasons, and the soul's ascent, the verses celebrate love, the transformative power of prayer and perseverance, and the letting-go that opens the heart. Several poems personify life and the weaver figure to contrast selfish ambition with loving creation, while invocations to the sky and stars urge trust in a transcendent presence. Tone alternates between contemplative exhortation and hopeful consolation, with recurring motifs of wings, dawn, and renewal framing a steady emphasis on spiritual uplift and inner victory.

WINGS

I live in every sentient thing.

Aye, what am I?—

The force that stirs the bird to sing,

And bids it fly;

The urge within the grey cocoon

To swell, and rend

The prison-walls; the ceaseless croon,—

“Life hath no end!”

The pulse within the seed that breaks

The shrivelled shell;

The thrill in bud, till bloom awakes;

The clarion bell

That calls the soul of Man to rise;

The power that flings

Off shackles of the flesh, and cries,—

“Behold thy wings!”