What Rough Beast | Poem for May 9, 2019

Marjorie Moorhead
Colored Birds Bouquet

—a Coexistence Triolet.

Birds come to the feeder, colored like a luscious bouquet of flowers.
Awareness that we share this planet making me so buoyantly happy.
Their feather-petals yellow, blue, the red of sky in evening hours.
Birds at the feeder blossoming like a luscious bouquet of flowers.
These sweet little creatures’ presence wielding incredible powers
to elicit empathy, wonder, fascination; emotions strong as nectar is sappy.
Multicolored birds visit our feeder like a luscious, gift bouquet of flowers.
Awareness of our precious synchrony making me fly-away-happy!

Marjorie Moorhead is the author of Survival: Trees, Tides, Song (Finishing Line Press, 2019). Her poems have appeared in HIV Here & Now, Rising Phoenix Review, and Sheila-Na-Gig Online, Porter House Review, and other journals, as well as in several anthologies. Moorhead writes from the NH/VT border.

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