Nine Haiku About One Thing
And she picked it up -
The sleek black and white feather,
Threw it in the bin.
Black and white against
Unrelieved grey. Graceful curve
Against the straight lines.
A flash of beauty
In the gutter. Tidied up
To dull, gritty grey.
Mock Jasmine flowers -
Beauty and perfume all lost
For neatly trimmed hedge.
Bright scattered colour -
Gold and bronze leaves down the drive,
Machine blown away.
There’s a concrete path
Through the forest now. It’s grey
Stark, unwelcoming.
Remember? “You don’t
Know what you’ve got till it’s gone.”
Paradise is lost.
We’re lost in a world.
Where Nature is untidy.
We’ve cleared it away!
She robbed us of it -
The sleek black and white feather,
Stole it from our sight.
Copyright © Shell Mcconville | Year Posted 2015
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