Refilled

Bird
feeders refilled;
starlings gather first,
pigeons queue up behind.
Impatient.

© Elizabeth Leaper

Jackdaw

Grey
the head,
the body black;
it can only be
Jackdaw.

Never
seen before
visiting the feeders,
today he returns for
more.

© Elizabeth Leaper

This Elfje pair is a companion piece to my post last Friday on ‘By the Wobbly Dum-Dum Tree’ which you can read here.

Waiting for Relief

ocellus
everywhere, trills
of the monsoon
bouncing off branches and
rocks

chestnuts
barely ping
water swollen ground
fluty birds remain blended
hidden

peacock
swallows hard
blue shining body
small lungs laboring hard;
grunts

©JP/davh

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Challenge

Swinging
bird feeder,
blown by wind,
presents challenge to garden
birds.

© Elizabeth Leaper

Their Last Breath

Distant
shots fired
to the skies –
one by one they
Fall.

What
chance do
the birds have?
Frightened and exposed to
All.

Man
is reponsible –
and woman too –
for frightening them to
Death

In
their fear
they reveal themselves –
unaware it’s their last
Breath

© Rachel Tapping