Wednesday, May 20, 2020

Birds and squirrels ---and a snake!

SITTING GUARD
A squirrel
co-opts fallen
seeds, scaring the young birds
in their foraging. I'm here to
umpire.
(5.9.'20)

DISCOVERY
Little
wrens can stretch for
suet and they don't raise
their heads as some birds do when they
swallow.
(5.1.'20)


AT LEAST THERE'S A CHOICE
Blackcap
at the dwindling
suet cake tries and tries
to access it; goes to the seed
feeder.
(5.8.'20)

RECOGNITION
I hear
her 'chits' before
I see mama redbird
fly to the branch with the suet
feeder.
(5.6.'20)


AND I WAS SOCK-FOOTED!
Prepping
to sit on swing
and read, I spy a grown
mockingbird chipping at a large-
bore snake,

the first
I've seen since I've
lived here (one month shy of
fourteen years). And then while I stewed,
it crawled

a ways
on the ramp. I
threw a gee-gaw at it,
it retreated to the ground or
under

the ramp.
I ran in for
my tablet for proof, but
by that time, it had disappeared.
Oh, dear!

Now, each
step I take must
be monitored for black
and long and slithering before
I move.
(5. 18. '20)

c 2020, PL dba lovepat press, Benton AR USA

Monday, May 4, 2020

Now that National Poetry Month is history, here are more springs poems and photos: Blogging


just like my mother's
my kitchen windowsills full
of starter plants
~ ~ ~ ~


first blooms
on the daughter-shared
lily
~ ~ ~ ~

STAY HOME TIME
For some
reason, I take
time to fold a fitted
sheet that's now lying as flat as
top sheets.
~ ~ ~ ~


PESTS UNTIL THEY BLOOM
Privet,
honeysuckle,
hated most of the year,
are spring-welcome; their aroma
sublime.
~ ~ ~ ~

c 2020, PL dba lovepat press, Benton AR USA