Donal Mahoney Poet Blank verse

A Winter Buffet

A bright winter day
and not a leaf left
on this skeleton 

tree teeming 
with sparrows
chirping and hopping

branch to branch 
waiting for the feeder
to be free of cardinals

juncos and jays 
bickering for seed
while on the ground

four doves
stroll in silence
feasting on spilled 

seed near the tree
where a fat squirrel 
sits with tail high 

in a question mark
ready to dive 
and scatter them all


Donal Mahoney

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Richard Jordan February 7, 2017 at 8:56 AM I love the way this flows from tercet to tercet! Delightful image! Donal Mahoney February 7, 2017 at 9:03 AM For me at least, I find the tercet or writing in three lines helps me in some way I don't understand. Been writing a long time and this has come to be in the last few years. Thanks for reading my work.