"A Little Consideration"

                Poetry Friday, a lovely time to end the week with poetry celebration. This week with Keri, at Keri Recommends, where she's also celebrating her birthday!  Go on over to help her celebrate! (She has cookies!)

       Every day to and from work, I walk past this bird feeder, created by a class at my school, and enjoy the color, the joyous look of it, especially in winter.  I decided to write about its purpose, as I see it.  Here is my celebration of it.

 "A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the    
                                                   difference."
                                                                -- Pooh's LittleInstruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne

Winter Views

Most birds have flown;

it’s winter after all.

It braids its tones of muted color

into the lonely sounds of geese

that fly the sky.

From creek to lake to pond,

they cry.

Sad are the robins creeping;

there’s nothing to be found.

They toddle, pecking at the dirt,

ignorant of worms working

only underground.

Crows speak in thinnest caws,

grumbling as they sit

waiting in bare trees,

little here for brightest birds, little here

to please.

The color found in made-up birds

conversing in the bath

will serve as welcome wagon

when real ones arrive

at last.

        Linda Baie © All Rights Reserved