Boreal Chick-A-Dee

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Written, November 09, 2023

Poetry/Personification/Haibun/Boreal Chick-A-Dee
Copyright Protected, ID 11-1596-571-09
All Rights Resrved, 2023, Constance La France

LesleytheBirdNerd - Such a sweet little face <3 Boreal Chickadees are beautiful little angels. The lovely one in this photo is Speck, a male that I've known for roughly 3 or 4

I was born in May, my nest was in a hole of an old tree. Mother had made the nest warm and cozy with hair, fur, and dead leaves. I often wondered where she got the hair. I had seven siblings in the beginning. Our home was in a boreal forest in Northern Canada. I soon realized I liked the cold. Of course, in the first days of my life I was helpless, mother and father fed us. But, by eighteen days I had sprouted wings and was flapping them a lot. I thought I was ready to fly but mother would push me back into the nest. Mother's songs were so beautiful with trills and whistles, soon I was singing. Sadly, I lost some of my siblings to predators, owls, hawks, even squirrels. I am a Boreal Chickadee, a songbird, I am sure you have heard our songs. I forage on confer branches, probe the bark. Our home is in trouble, it is being cut down, and we are dramatically threatened. I am afraid of where I will go. For now, I forage the boreal forest with a small flock of friends. we sing sweet trilling songs that drift through the trees for miles ... as snow gently falls Poetry/Personification/Haibun/Boreal Chick-A-Dee Copyright Protected, ID 11-1596-571-09 All RightsResrved, 2023, Constance La France

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Ink Empress

Date: 11/10/2023 10:17:00 AM

Ah so beautiful this is. I love the way you’ve done this personification in the form of haibun, soul warming and seamless how your words flow here. Im sure this will do very well in the contest. Goodluck

Constance La France
Date: 11/10/2023 5:49:00 PM

Ink, thank you so much for the compliment and encouragement, blessings

Bill Baker

Date: 11/9/2023 5:37:00 PM

Excellent personification poetry, Constance. A FAV for my list! You let us fill the heartbeat of a bird through your imagery and poetic skills. Good luck in the contest, my friend. Bill

Constance La France
Date: 11/9/2023 9:37:00 PM

Bill, thank you so much for the compliment, comment, FAV and encouragement, appreciate, blessings

Marikate Kingston

Date: 11/9/2023 5:16:00 PM

This a darling poem, that would certainly make a terrific book for children to learn from. Such cute little birds and not terribly timid. I wish there were fines for cutting down trees. Homes to so many, many important animals, rodents, birds, insects. I enjoyed reading a poem written in the first person. I would like to send this to my daughter, who wants to be an ornithologist someday. A lovely one..Chick a dee dee dee.

Constance La France
Date: 11/9/2023 9:39:00 PM

Marikate, thank you so much for the compliment, and comment. I like all birds but the chickadee is special to me, of course you can send my poem to your daughter, blessings

John Lawless

Date: 11/9/2023 3:15:00 PM

Excellent job Constance, Personification in the Haibun form with a gentle reminder regarding deforestation....

Constance La France
Date: 11/9/2023 9:40:00 PM

John, thank you so much for the compliment and comment, yes, I love Haibun form and thought it would be good as a Personification, blessings

Jan Allison

Date: 11/9/2023 3:06:00 PM

what an absolutely charming personification poem Constance, a joy to read:-) hugs jan xx

Constance La France
Date: 11/9/2023 9:41:00 PM

Jan, thank you so much for the compliment and comment, blessings