Wren
I hear you singing
Through the window, you reach me
With a bright Spring song
Starlings
Two shiny green birds
Ornaments on bare branches
Winter-jewelled tree
Over flooded fields
The flock ripples out. Black boats
Fish on the dawn tide
Magpie
Wings in, arrow flight
Look at you, surfing sunlight!
Soon beached on tree branch
Starlings
7.45 am
Iron clouds roll, I spot them!
A fleet of starlings
Stretched as thin as air
Starling flock returns to floods
From yesterday's rain
Heron and Little Egret flying past on walk
Overhead; look up!
Awkward neck crick, gangly legs
Birds and birdwatchers
Magpies, Crows and Jackdaws
Magpies in a tree
Six or seven, more maybe
Secret to be told
He feeds them. Walking
The lanes, Tor bound, beautiful
World waking up. Here
Garden Birds
In the willow twigs
Sweet garden song of robin
For the New Year now
All manner of small:
Long-tails, Chatter-spats, Dundills
Sparries, Jenny Wren
A twister springs up
Swirling wings in a grey sky
Seagulls storm the field
The farmer’s field lake
Grown fat with winter flooding
Now ducks feed for free
Through the window, here!
Robin acknowledges me
For windowsill seeds
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
A Bright Balance of Feathers - new Kindle ebook edition now!
I'm delighted to announce a new edition of these haiku is now for sale as a Kindle ebook on Amazon. Click on the image below or follow the preview links in the margin.
Up in the bare trees
A canopy of feathers
Sings about Spring soon
On the bird table
Freckles, speckles, sparks and dots
Starlings squabble lots!
