Swift Magic.
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As if plotted by common whim
fleet birds, flitting
like bats will stop for nothing
but hunger to conjour
magical speed while skimming
skies before migration.
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Swifts delight
in aeromatics, they fortify time\'s
regulation of orbit
in massed performance organised
to demonstrate flight\'s
need of definitive plan of action.
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We know when swifts arrive earth
has revolved
again round the mighty sun\'s girth
for one more season
as shrill-pitched screechers turn,
dive, eat on the wing
and flirt wildly with air as whirling
beats drone high overhead.
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In-built beauty of quick movement
takes steep rolling dips
amid overt screaming that opens
to smooth dynamics as
sound of bird-fervour approaches
in feathered unison.
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Swifts observed
in migrant action present mystery
deemed as matchless,
humans gasping at massed infinite
wheeling of myriads
are naturally awed and some wish
just once to spread
wisdom\'s wings and fly like these
migratory-guided
swiflty gliding collections of birds
now looking as late
summer advances to gather again.
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