stumbling through
the Moonlight Sonata
while outside the window
a twilight birdsong—
not one note out of place
Posts Tagged ‘bird’
One Rusty
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bird, perfectionism, piano, poem, poetry on July 8, 2019| Leave a Comment »
In the Hummingbird Nest Outside My Window
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bird, hope, hummingbird, nature, nest, poem, poetry on July 6, 2019| Leave a Comment »
From eggs
the size
of small
jelly beans
come these
two beaks
that peak
beyond the
edge—today
they save
me, these
two tiny
wingless things.
Even this
bruised heart
remembers how
to marvel.
Absence
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bird, bluebird, poem, poetry, returning on March 25, 2019| 2 Comments »
The bluebirds return.
It never occurs to me to chastise them for leaving.
It’s what they do.
All day, I think
of their shallow wing beats,
their slow flight,
their bright blue fluttering,
and how easily, how instantly yesly
my heart rises up to meet them.
One Trick
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged absence, bird, longing, poem, poetry, tanager on January 29, 2019| Leave a Comment »
One Soon
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged anticipation, bird, blue heron, emptiness, poem, poetry on January 27, 2019| Leave a Comment »
driving past the great nests,
my mind fills in the empty air—
dozens of blue heron wings
One Redirection
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged attention, bird, crow, noise, poem, poetry, silence, sound on January 14, 2019| Leave a Comment »
One Wanting the World to be Different
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bird, cage, change, entrapment, poem, poetry on December 9, 2018| Leave a Comment »
bird in the cage
so intently singing
its sad, caged song
never noticing
the door long ago opened
Busy Girl’s Satori
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged awakening, bird, blue heron, poem, poetry, question, revelation on June 28, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Across the yard, below
the cliffs, and just beneath the evening’s
drift toward darkening, above
the river, through the trees,
there is, if you are lucky,
a slender moment charmed
by chance when, if you look up,
the great blue heron
will angle past on slanting wing
and make you question
everything.
One Sermon
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bird, fence, meadowlark, poem, poetry on June 3, 2018| Leave a Comment »
April 23
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bird, hummingbird, love, poem, poetry, trust on April 23, 2018| 2 Comments »
How do they do it,
the broad-tailed hummingbirds,
arriving at my window
the same day every year,
welcome as spring,
reliable as moon.
And what part of me
thrills in their predictability?
And what part says,
a tad too triumphantly,
See, here’s proof,
things come back.
I hear the small birds
before I see them,
their wingtips trilling,
I’ve read how the feathers
that make the sound wear down
from use. By midwinter,
you can barely hear
their bright hum at all until,
preparing to breed,
they grow new feathers again.
How do they do it,
grow feathers at just the right time?
I want to linger in the small
miracle of it, these ears still learning
how to hear and this heart still
astonished at the timing
of the world, how life just knows
when to return, when to grow.
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