Friday, July 15, 2016

Cardinals, cicadas and crickets: poems

Disregard the snow--or if you're really hot, imagine...
 
a break in the heat
windows open to cicadas
and birdsong
~~
 
hidden
in the Virginia Creeper
a singing wren
~~
 
seeing red:
apple feeder, salvia
and cardinals
~~
 
drone of the traffic
close, but unseen
a cardinal's 'chit-chit-chit'
~~
 
crickets still singing
a yellow leaf falls
on my yellow shirt
~~
 
trip to the feeder
hummingbird stops on in-line
wire: cat, child close by
~~
 
 
Tibicen linnei.jpg
Wikipedia image
 
 c 2016 PL dba lovepatpress
 
 




2 comments:

  1. I love the birds that gift me with their presence. We have a little wren, lots of cardinals, a pair of mockingbirds, house finches and recently a pair of bluebirds. Those eyes on that cicada tickle me.

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