Thursday, 12 November 2020

A Poem a Day (298): Notes on wintering

 
Notes on wintering
 
Feel the days in ever-shift,
a moving screen, unfiltered
 
tongue-tied mornings lifting
skies that dream eternal.
 
We tell ourselves so many things,
how to be, see, even grow.
 
Summer passes too fast for us
and here we are, wintering.
 
A squirrel still searches for his tree
in the garden’s empty spaces,
 
seeking a god of nature erased.
We breathe in patterns unrecorded,
 
never to be repeated on loop.
These days lift, full eyes wise,
 
birdsong a cacophony of notes
we wish we could decipher
 
only to learn the secrets of flight
and the resurfacing of spring.
 
Copyright Vickie Johnstone, November 12, 2020
 
 

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