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Silver and golden heads shed a little hair each day
A bright woollen strand from a Yuletide jumper
All in a domed nest of thorny twigs are laid
With shiny sweet wrappers and other magpie plunder
I bid them good morning in case of misfortune
Is it two for joy or a pair for mirth?
Perched on a wire and wall ready to caution
Lest any creature threaten their life on earth
Eight you live and nine you die
Ten for devouring a bogey pie
Each number a meaning for every magpie
But beware of thirteen for it’s the devil himself
There are no birdbrains here, only lightning perception
Grief and respect for their own who have fallen
Each offers grass for a wreath of affection
They swoop to the vigil when they hear the calling
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Winged Sages
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Save us from witches and warlocks
And langnebbit things
Save us from winged sages
Misfortune they bring
Cross myrtle, ling and moss by the Halladale
One whistler flies by the moon so pale
Under the eaves, and his bill is held apart
To carry off the bairn with sin in his heart
As the river flows out into the bay
Fishermen prepare their nets by the break of day
Three whistlers cry to foretell a storm
Should they leave the harbour, they may not return the morn
O'er the bleak and lonely flows
Where plover and dunlin roam
Six whistlers endlessly fly and call
To find another and bring the end of us all
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Pefkin Sheffield, UK
Pefkin is the alter ego of Gayle Brogan, creator of slowly-unfolding, ritualistic hymnals that draw heavily on the landscape and natural world.
She is also a member of Burd Ellen, Greenshank and Meadowsilver.
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