Category: birds
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Perfect Trust
I was pondering the sad, awful state of America one day when I suddenly remembered an amazing encounter with a pair of Bald Eagles in Alaska. These birds mate for life, and ritually renew their devotion by grabbing each other’s talons in mid-air and tumbling head over head down before releasing and soaring back upward.…
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Blue Blue Heron
I know my presenceCaused you some stressHere in your homeI am but a guestI hope you understood my excitementTo see you againI tried to tread softlySo as not to offendHoping all the whileThat maybe we’re friends********* The first Trump presidency gutted key parts of the century old, bipartisan Migratory Bird Protection Treaty. Joe Biden quickly…
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Second Chances
At first, from a distance, I dismissed youAs too uniformly drabI didn’t expect to find such color and beautyThrough a lensSecond looks, second chancesSerenditpitous reflections and reminders
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Goldfinches
In summer I heard you whistleFrom the giant thistleDreaming of seeds yet to comeNow the seeds are eaten, the stalks have fallenYet still you singMuch needed cheer to my soul you bring
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Pelagic Magic
Pelagic, like magicYou soar over the open seaWith balletic graceSo effortlesslyWith wing spans titanicNine, ten, eleven feet or moreFew humans will see youSo far from our shoresYour longevityRivals even our ownYour poignant curiosityTouches our hearts and our poemsBut your numbers are waningThe same old story we knowHuman greed and carelessnessOur shameful shadowBaited hooks by the…
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Easter … An Island
You cut down all the treesNo wood left to make a boatNo way to escapeAn island so remoteNo way to fish upon the seaNo fruit left to harvestFlightless birds were all killedSocietal darknessYou waded into the waterCatching what you could by handA tragedy of heedlessnessThat would only expandThe dolphins and fish moved awayWise to your…
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Flower or Fruit?
Which blossoms will become fruit?But for the busyness of a bird or a beeWhich will fall silentlyInto death’s obscurityWe enter this life of uncertaintyWith no guaranteesNature offers us so many mirrorsOf our instincts and frailtiesIn nature I can find my spirituality If you look closely, there is a bee in the photo!
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The Dyslexic Writing Life
Unconscious upwellingsDisparate fragments of ideasSearching for cohesionSuddenly, a coalescenceWords flow into sentences,Sentences into paragraphsA story is bornLuminous, numinous wordsGifts from the psycheDeep, spiritual contentmentBut then … The transcriptionFrom brain to pageSwimming letters, wordsSmall bits, slow speedThe tough egg to crackFatigue, frustrationSome help from dictationOne halting, awkward step at a timeUntil I reach my destinationThen ……
Haumanu Speaks/PoetiCalli 