Saturday, April 2, 2022

Day 2. The Lonely Birdfeeder

A glint of wing A lick of sun, A flicker, a tweet, A flash of beak. Then zot

Forlorn,

I offer supplication

beseeching incantation

A futile ululation.

Distraught


It seems my happiness depends

on bushtits, hummers, finches, wrens

So here I sit to gaze, bereft,

My pretty flitty friends have left

It’s fraught


And then, can it be?


A glimmer, a gleam

A shimmer a sheen

A flit and a dip -

I see a wee hummer

has come to sip.

Besot 


Prompt: Write a poem based on a word featured in a tweet from Haggard Hawks, an account devoted to obscure and interesting English words. I chose my own obscure word "zot"

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