Crested, blue chattering bird; yes you are,
Keeping my company all winter long;
My other feathered friends have gone afar,
From the snow and icy winds howling strong;
Monogamously you mate ‘til you die
Right! if people would on this trait partake
Divorces I opine wouldn’t be high;
Marriage vows are sacred for goodness sake.
From Ohio lodging saw you did perch
On the highest bough, there you took your place;
Cardinals and robins too, feared your birch
Bully tactics hidden on pretty face.
Fearless as love my jay-bird cocked its crest
On the gray limb of a snow-flecked maple;
Blue, white and black bedecked its fancy dress
What shenanigans will you once more pull?
Casey chased you from her backyard feeder
She said you displayed a bad attitude
And that you are a corvid pilferer
Stealing and raiding with high latitude.
I do think Casey was harsh and unfair
You only wanted to eat and to play
Musical notes across the woodland air;
Such utter nonsense I do hear you say.
From dawn to dusk I did hear blue jay’s call
High up in forest tree it seemed to me
Throughout the winter, spring, summer and fall
Its musical wheedle and tooloolee.
Cyanocitta cristata my true love
I shall miss your sweet notes your voice recalls,
And your gorgeous body floating above
With peculiar quirks, ruffles and falls;
I’m leaving Buckeye for the surf and sand,
It’s for a while but I must go away
To raise black-belly sheep on Maycock’s land;
Shall be back jay-jay on Thanks Giving Day.
© Paterika Hengreaves
April 24, 2007, Ohio, USA
No comments:
Post a Comment