Drawing back the night
A curtain of starlings fly
Across the sky’s frame
Now, the low gold sun
Trumpets its autumn fanfare
Starlings march the sky
Sparrowhawk gazes
From the pergola. It eyes
Hunt me, fierce and wild
Flooded fields are now
A waterfowl’s wet dream, ooh!
Check out those swans, wow.
Kingfisher
Perched on a bare bough
Cloth of gold and blue; bright flag
Above the river
Little Egrets and Canada Geese
We are gathering
Where the river and fields wend
A way to feed us
Two waiters in white
Among the gaggle of guests
Riverbank dining
Red Kites
Red wings, white tails, wind
Almost gone, now returned here
To hunt the blue hills
Robin near St Davids Cathedral
Cheese sarnie and tea
Spare a crumb! Table hopping
And hoping for alms
Crow
Sizing me up, you
Decide my cake is crow food
Beachside corvid hops
Sparrows
A handful of crumbs
For a handful of small birds
Happiness is here
Bittern
Bittern; subtle brown
feathers flying past the hide
Herringbone beauty
Egret
Feather tutu flies
Musical winds wafting wings
Jete! Jete! Glide!
Swans
In the green canal
Among the waterlilies
White sails drifting by
Graceful necks bending
Low to kiss their reflections…
Pondweed slurps instead!
Cormorant
Sky hatchet cutting
A swathe of leaden landscape
Skewering reedbeds
Jays
Just so much gossip
In the branches overhead
Two jays chat at lunch
Marsh Harrier
Broad wings weave the wind
Around a stand of willows
While rain clouds billow
My author copies have arrived! It’s
always exciting to open a parcel and find a new book. I’m so pleased to have released
this new edition of ‘A Bright Balance of Feathers’ in paperback form. It has a
matt cover featuring one of my photos of a robin taken at Ham Wall Nature
Reserve on the Somerset Levels and it’s light enough to take on a walk with
enough space around the poems for you to write your own nature haiku and notes.
Find it for sale here on Amazon: A Bright Balance of Feathers: Bird Haiku: Amazon.co.uk: Herlihy, P L: 9798386790400: Books
It hunts the tree line
Below me, a wingspan away
Hunter seeks its prey
Brown feathers reach out
Ruffling in the air. Eyes down!
Birdseye view below
You follow the wind
Catching it close in your heart
Soaring with its song
