John Lawless Poet Carpe Diem

Winter Exhales

Swans - thrump-thrumping
practice take offs and landings

Geese honk
file flight plans

Muskrats build
mud and stick domes

Beaver maintenance crews
make ready

frogs retreat
while the mud is soft

Osprey screech
above naked woods

A doe follows
a scented path

Turtles secure
their mobile homes

A woodpecker
sends Morse code alerts

The ice shell
creeps

Winter exhales
across the pond

John G. Lawless
9/25/2020

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Andrea Dietrich September 27, 2020 at 10:21 AM really loved what you said about the turtles and the woodpeckers. CUTE! last verse was the perfect ending.

Jan Allison September 25, 2020 at 2:28 PM what amazing wintery imagery these are so clever John, i adore the woodpecker one and the geese filing flight plans and the beavers ! making this a fave its charming:-) hugs jan xx