Doug, really nice poem! But I wonder about how you
intend to acknowledge (or not) Lenny for his (and now
yours) "bird on a wire"?
Candice
--- Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> World full of trouble
> but Planet keeps on
>
> keeping small things
> bird on a wire cheeping
> in bright sun lit
>
> & in their nest upon the hydro
> pole eaglets squall
> hidden still
> grey mother hovering
>
> male's aloof white head
> impervious to cries & traffic noise
> gazing out upon the river
> bridge fields the small
> running food to come
>
> (Grand River, Cambridge Ontario)
>
> Douglas Barbour
> 11655 - 72 Avenue NW
> Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9
> (780) 436 3320
> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
>
> Latest book: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
>
>
> God be with you, my dears. You keep
> the old bugger. I shan't be needing him!
>
> Norman Douglas (last words)
>
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