Mercia - (By David Hurt)

David Hurt's Coventry:

The Sky Blue Phoenix Waiting For Full Flight

On the precipice

Of its furnace nest

It awaits for its flamed wings

To fully fledge.

Still alight;

In mind and soul,

But not of flames,

Not of ashes,

But of bursts that want to ignite a world with

Sparks of creative thought.

Bursts,

Waiting to spread across the skies

Of Britain

And beyond...

Bursts,

Not of destruction,

But of unity,

Peace

And reconciliation.

Bursts,

Of matured wisdom

And beauty...