Showing posts with label swallows. Show all posts
Showing posts with label swallows. Show all posts

Sunday, March 19, 2023

Flitting Sounds (new poem)

 


Flitting Sounds (new poem)

by Tim Kavi

flitting sounds, Spring has come
mountain streams awaken from slumber
robin comes calling, tiny swallows
flitting sounds like ruffling paper
on the branches.

overlooking like a protector
arms outstretched while She gathers her young
mother Gaia in the Winter soaked trees
waters the furrows in the ground where flowers
will spring forth in my Grandma's yard.

there is everywhere a straining, a waking up
new phases traded for old states
where once the withered and dying
now teems with new lives, full of promise
and heralding birdsongs.

I am made the Singer of Spring
the lyricist of eternal hopes
in the face of even fading suns
We are made whole in the love and tender mercies
of Spring's arrival.

Saturday, January 21, 2023

Catch the Sparrow (New Poem)

 

Catch the Sparrow (New Poem)
by Tim Kavi

catch the sparrow
while they take wing
catch the sparrow
as they take flight
so you may rightfully sing

gentle breezes carry
across the night
in the destined moonlight
one finds a nesting place

catch the sparrow
because Winter they do bring
singing their songs with a happy heart
catch the sparrow
you will find an awesome thing

flying on wing spans
carried away and above
in your lover's love
there is a singer's space

catch the sparrow
tiny but forceful and strong
catch the sparrow
fill the Earth with your song

catch the sparrow
beautiful breasted ones
catch the sparrow
until all the days are done

fair feathered ones
I see your feet in the snow
but I always know
your song comforts me

wherever I go.

afterword: photo credit: House swallows on
the rooftop with Mt. Scott, New Zealand in
the background. --Jonathan Keelty,
Hong Kong