With the turning of the years

Never give the blackbird joy stay firm, strong, fast, stoic and coy- when the blackbird strikes the land.

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Airline Food for the Soul

The sr-71 blackbird is a work of art in his mind: having to wear an environmental space suit just to fly it is a small price to pay in his opinion. "this damn thing doesn't fit!

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The Lake

I heard the hoarse call of the blackbirds already starting their laments.

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No Last Chances-Chapter 1

"this is broadsword requesting status report from blackbird." no answer. i radioed in again. "blackbird do you copy?" still no answer. i dropped the radio and turned to a group of trees to my right. "zach!"

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Episode Ten: MAAB

P'rao spun to face meech and a taller, lanky blackbird with a fully pocketed milker's vest, a sash full of tools across his breast, and a highly judgmental scowl in the set of his beak. "this is p'rao."

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Brith by Sleep

There are many things in this world that make people stop and think. Most of these things happen in everyday life, though most are too preoccupied with what they're doing to pay attention long enough to see them. A finite amount of these occurrences or...

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The Starling Master

But though he hears them when they call and shepherds where they fly, he hears the blackbird voices that he shepherds through the sky, they never hear a word from him until the day they die.

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Blank Verse Essay on the Haunting of America

The lovelorn and pining rapping at the chamber door which, opened flung, reveals nobody there: just wind among the trees, just blackbirds on the lintel, just the anchors on our wrists.

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Shiloniap Culture

blackbird = pet name. dove = pet name. chicken = pet name. rooster = pet name. chick = both a pet name and a word used to degrade people who act too young for their age: "don't be a chick and get off the couch".

Blackness O Thy Wings

"in come the blackbirds, in murders and in droves." i receive my drink, slipping the waitress a twenty, as i quaff it. "to cover you in shadow as they clean you to the bone."

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Mare Talk

Both mares exhaled softly into one another's muzzles, warm breath washing over soft-skinned noses, the quiet end of the day chirping in a blackbird's call. "only time will tell which trail we were always meant to take."

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Chapter 3: The rise of Exstacy (Part 2)

Chapter 3 The shadow demon they stood on began to disapate into small particals that disappeared in the air. Vixen and Exstacy's feet began to tilt down slowly as the shadow demon disappeared below their feet. They both then droped to the ground...

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