Winter Swans

• the clouds had


  given their all
• gulping for breath


  at our feet
• silent and


  apart
• icebergs of


  white feather
• like boats righting


  in rough weather
• our hands had somehow


  swum the distance between us
• like a pair of wings


  settled after flight
• Poet


  Owen Sheers
• When was it published

  2005
• Structure


  organized into tercets—three-line stanzas—right up until the final two lines. The poem ends on a couplet—a two line stanza
• Rhyme


  none