Buntings Poems

Buttermorphosis

...I recall the rural life of the butterfly
Extravagantly —that proud floating mass of wings.
Her wings flutter from sea to coast so eloquently,
Yet silent with the muteness of frightened breeze.
Th...

Sing Spring

...
Scavenging squirrels search for acorns, scratching old stumps from trees. 
Scampering up my sugar maple, they steal my bird feeder seeds. 
Sleepy salamanders wake from their slumber to search on ...

Fishing Holiday

...Fishing Holiday

A kingfisher sitting on the old harbour wall
Listening to the geese from the mud flats call
I'm here for some sea fishing until after the thaw
Bra...

The Second Coming

...If we had known he was coming
we would have played our drums
till our fingers bled.
Our women
would have decorated themselves
painting their bodies and nails
and weaving colours into their hair...

Winter Nature

...Cold, like fire ants, within sweaters bite,
White and green and gold adorned is the site; 
The cold breeze as though dipped in ice seas blows,
Sky and fog and cloud are on fashion shows...!

Car...

Night of Aurora

...Night of Aurora	

Dance of Life -
Night of Aurora before the midnight sun,
Before the polar threshold of the daystar,
As Aurora’s swirling spirals flicker
In winsome purple-green electric flash...

Nordic Light Show

...nordic light show	

night of auroras
 swirling fiery spirals spin
  snow buntings call soft

purple green flashes
 leap across the artic night ~
  silver solitude

celestial outbursts
 mag...

We Can Survive

...As the days march steadily toward spring
Warmer weather the forecast guarantees,
Leaves are budding on the sycamore trees
Morning breaks, the purple buntings sing.

While Mother Natu...

Winter Snow Buntings

...Virgin crystal flakes lucent feature,
Journey downwards from heaven,
Falling round shimmering nature. 
Limbs Stretch High. A numbing breath driven,
Winter wet embrace forgiven.

First Winte...

Idyll Thoughts

...I will wander like a gypsy seeking wisdom,
I will find it in each little knowledge system;
Each hair of beauty I'll split like a small atom,
And find in them the secrets hidden like stratum...

...

Birds of Future Springs

...Bird watchers say
 there are birds that return in spring to play
build a nest, raise their young
 but as seasons change there are always some
who stay the winter, forage for seeds
 familiar ones...

For Thy Will Be Done

...a flock of buntings
with
their 
majestic feathers glowing
red blue green and yellow
swarming through
the
joyful atmosphere
swirling back and forth
in every direction
like an accordian motio...

Depression

...I suppose you've been wondering 
Why your eyes don't smile anymore.
Why your once radiant optimism
has drowned in concrete mud.
Why the future, even tomorrow,
suddenly tastes so bitter 
on ...

You In Blue

...You in blue

We relaxed on that golden sandy beach listening to aquamarine sea lapping gently, there were flower beds of periwinkle,  lavender and navy petunias that compliment white striped azure ...

Going's and Happenings

...I wot of maifaire said the man where people sell
Upon the green where are leafy boughed trees seen
There stand thegen; reeve; and fat geese lay, there
People do sport and horses neigh
Just follow...

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