Bird Watching

You’re looking through the lens,
then a flare of orange sherbet, a Baltimore Oriole!
Your wide-eyed grin is hard to look away from.

A bright splash of tangerine,
flashes of white on each black wing,
a bedazzle of delight.
You keep smiling into the camera -
a moment of euphoria.

If the metropolis is anything like the bird
Baltimore must be golden city in the clouds
yet even I know that’s a cock-eyed vision.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2022

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Hankins Avatar
March 17, 2022 at 6:25 PM
So they say, although I've never spent any time in Baltimore. I always loved seeing them in the fencerows when I was growing up in West Virginia. Beautiful little fellows with lovely flashes of color when they are on the wing. Good stuff, Eric!
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May 3, 2022 at 8:23 AM
WV is my favorite place. Glad this worked for you L Milton.
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