Bluejay Escorting Me One Morn
Bluejay Escorting Me One Morn
Taking early morn walk to settle worldly thoughts
so gentle the path and green splashing trees
Solitude and peaceful spirit so easily bought
enjoying Nature's gift of the birds and the bees
Before reaching first hiking trail's little bend
found I had a blue flashing fast flying friend
A bluejay seemed to be so doggedly following me
circling around happily landing tree to tree
Could it be, same returning fledgling from last Spring?
little darling I had saved when it failed first wing
Placed tenderly back into that great and high nest
life thus saved joining all the loud chirping rest
Now followed faithfully for another four hundred yards
blue flashes often circling above my uncovered head
As if my life it so cleverly wanted to now safely guard
so much like a dream yet I surely was not in my bed
Bluejay so happily trailing me as if to just say,
thank you friend, for saving me that sweet day!
Robert J. Lindley 06-05-2014..
Written today but inspired from an incident that happened to
me a few months after my heart attack four years ago..
That bluejay followed me from just behind my home to a stream
about a half mile away. Where it landed in a tall Sycamore tree
while I sat beside that stream for about 45 minutes..
Had never seen anything like it before or since!!
Could it have been the same baby bluejay I saved the preceding year??
Is that even possible?
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