Mother, a green woodpecker
floated to the ground today
with grace and poise
before plucking the soil
with its ebony beak, and I thought
you would like to know
how much simpler life has become,
how quiet the weekends are
that I notice a bird I’ve never seen before,
and watch it for longer than ten minutes.
I thought you would like to know
winter is dawning yet life is still thriving
and the springtime defiance
always makes me think of you.
Poem: © Kristiana Reed 2019
Image by TheOtherKev from Pixabay
“winter is dawning yet life is still thriving”
Poems about how life still continues to thrive in winters are always soothing and lovely to me, and this one – with the shape of a letter to mother – was nothing less.
Lovely!
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Thank you very much 💛
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Well written 🙂
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Thank you ☺️
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