Poems to remember from 2011 - Day 3, birds

A bird sang, everyone listened. The sermon is preached, said the master. Thus goes a zen saying.

So shall we have""birds" as today's theme?

Let's start with this tanka.

reaching the age
of being ignored
what sweet delight
when a mockingbird
answers my call



Margaret Chula

I know i featured this next one in a previous post also, but this simply has to find a place among my best of 2011.

mehndi
from wrists to fingertips...
last of the swallows

Claire Everett



testing the water
through rings of raindrops
the egret's steps


Claire Everett




where creek willows weave the sunlight ducklings

Lorin Ford





how his day went robins at dusk


Jennifer Gomoll Popolis , Acorn, spring 2011





blue highway--
curve
of the blackbird's song


Bill Pauly (Modern haiku, winter 2011)




white sky
a cloud of blackbirds
erupts from an oak

Laura Garrison




scarecrow
birds
anyway


Michele L Harvey

And finally these two ,

day moon the little grebe's leap into light

John Barlow, 2010

all day long
this fever
hummingbird

Peggy Willis Lyles, 2010