FEATHER DISTORTED

How would you describe a feather 

the assignment for the day at

Grammar school where the 

young mind is questioned into play

Lets start with the possible but

Creativity demands assumption so 

until it becomes inflammable

lets project fertile imagination

I know, said a young boy

a feather is soft and white

comforts me in the pillow

I sleep on at night

To me a feather is beautiful

a chirpy young girl said

various hues are imbued

which stays even after its dead

The adolescent piped a feather

I use to tickle the skin

Long and fluffy, I use two

alike as twins

A feather, said the sophomore,

is delicate and fine

Catches dreams artistic

on a circle entwined

I think, said a graduate, 

the feather is analogy

a pun for some fun

cliché or even simile

I'll add said another, eagle eyed

a feather gives you flight

Lifts the weary traveller

and makes his journey light

A feather said the poet

is an instrument of delight 

steel tipped in ink

black that I use to write

A feather said the marksman

is stiff and scarlet

draws blood when launched

from a position covert

A feather is anger, 

said a voice ruffled and dark

bristling with emotion and

with teeth like a shark

And then the teacher took the feather
opened a window and let it fly
the wind had died so it descended
waving a spiralled goodbye