Tag: birds

• The Haunting Tree by Josh Poole

  

  Fleeting leaves of haunting treesGhosts of August goneFall to despair upon its kneesTo whisper winter’s song. Your soul trampled beneath my shoesYour heart bare of breastFor your last dirge winter blowsAnd at last falls out your nest. Dead to me the bird that’s flownTo finer trees in finer placesIt cracks my mind to have ever…

  colleenflorafiction

  December 5, 2021

  birds, fall, haunting, nature, Poetry

• Ortolan in Winter by Mercedes Payton

  

  “Ortolan in Winter” is a vivid poem that sing like a bird. The poet, Mercedes Payton, is a graduate of Kansas State University and librarian.

  colleenflorafiction

  August 5, 2021

  art, artist, birds, free verse, nature, poem, poet, Poetry, winter, write, writer, writing