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Yellow Roses (Fly Little Raven)

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Fly little raven;
fly racing after
Apollo's chariot.

String bright yellow
roses in your hair.

Smile and let us feel
your fully blossoming warmth.
Shake loose your wings;
Glide and let
fragrant petals drift
behind you in the dusk.

Ascend and spread
your feathers to the night.
Carry your crown like
Venus amidst the stars,
that your admirers might
observe you in the full moon's light.
I wrote this flying west over the Atlantic in a perpetual state of 5pm a few nights before the memorial. The physical aspect of the metaphors was heavily influenced by these circumstances.
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This seems like one that is open to a more wider interpretation. It mainly brings thoughts of the drifting sun to my mind's eye when you describe the yellow, but I'm sure the meaning is quite different for yourself (as with most). It's probably because of the idea of the raven flying against the sky, a very literal version I know.

I particularly like how it ends with this uplifting tone in bidding the raven upwards.