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A sparrow

Concerns given wings
Migrate southward for winter
Make this frost my home

Light footed sparrow
Bringing forth this bright new dawn
Draped in morning snow

About This Poem

Style/Type: Structured: Eastern

Review Request Intensity: I want the raw truth, feel free to knock me on my back

Editing Stage: Editing - polished draft

About the Author

Region, Country: U.S.A., USA

Favorite Poets: Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman. I’m enamored by the work of lyricists such as Robert Hunter, John Barlow, John Dyer Baizley, and Tom Marshall just to name a handful.

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Comments

RoseBlack

RoseBlack

2 years 4 months ago

The opening line

is my favorite! I love watching the birds out in the backyard. We have a cardinal that visits periodically and a resident woodpecker too. Beautiful write!

Lavender

Lavender

2 years 4 months ago

A Sparrow

Hi, Tim,
This feels like a lovely, long exhale followed by a lovely, long inhale. Breathe out tension, breathe in love. I am loving the tiniest footprints from the sparrow over the fresh, bright snow. Very zen.
Thank you!
L

Indivisible_Origin

Indivisible_Origin

2 years 4 months ago

haiku form

I used to have a practice of writing one 5 7 5 per day. I found it was good practice and honed my writing. Fantastic imagery packed into a tight format. I see an avian's footprints in snow. Well done.

Seren

Seren

2 years 4 months ago

Dear Tim

Do you know the story of the Guf? It is said that when a baby is born the sparrow sings as the soul comes from the Guf to enter the baby as it is being born. There is more to the story and it's a little darker but your poem made me think of that story and also as winter recedes the Sparrow is announcing the coming spring with his light footsteps in the snow.

It's a gorgeous poem.

Kind regards Jayne

Candlewitch

Candlewitch

2 years 4 months ago

dear Tim,

you have penned some really great lines, here!

*hugs, Cat

Geezer

Geezer

2 years 4 months ago

There is...

a sparrow's nest under the eaves of the house next door. I see them swooping in and out all the Spring, making a new nest for raising the years' nestlings. I look forward to it every year. Harbingers of Spring and rebirth. Your Haikus give me that feel.
Nicely done! BTW, you have managed to spell [bringing] wrong. ~ Geez.
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