It’s Nature day today in the AtoZ Poetry Challenge so I hope my morning dog walks in the park can pay off now. I am learning that sharing poetry is the end in itself, and the journey is a delightful one. (That’s not the poem lol). Being a Capricorn, I seem to write poetry from the kiddy goat side and the fishes tail side. Does anyone else find that?
N is for Nature
The Nature of Us
Rest in the nest,
find comfort there, be still.
The flighty bird, unsettled, untamed,
swoops into trouble, landing in a strange nest,
tossed into a barren stillness, unlike home, unlike him.
Lest the nest be like the rest,
we have to test the nest the best.
Tressed and dressed, to pass the test,
no rest until the best impressed.
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Very nice Catherine. I liked the line, “…tossed into a barren stillness, unlike home, unlike him.”
No jest – I’m impressed!
Thanks Jennifer and Julie!
Lovely poem. Makes me appreciate the view outside my window that much more. Thank you!
Same here, Vicki. I am so lucky to see trees out of almost every window.
So is that two separate poems, then?
I’m playing hangman over on my blog today!
Oh yes, they are so different, I should have put a picture in between or bothered to title them, I’m so sloppy when I blog twice in the day
Hangman sounds fun, school pick up now, I’ll have to play later.
I love your opening lines of the first poem… “Rest in the nest, find comfort there. Be still.”
A gentle reminder of how we should all percieve our homes….lovely.
Yes, Natalie and that’s not always easy when you work there too, is it?
Love your poem – especially appropriate right now – we have nesting birds under our front entry with three tiny wide-mouthed babies newly hatched
Oh how cute, I hope you’re going to take pictures!
Cute! I love this time of the year. I wake up to birds singing outside my window.
I like what you said about sharing poetry being “the end in itself, and the journey is a delightful one.” So true. Both your poems here are delightful in their different ways. The first sings to me most because I like a relaxed home.
Thanks Hannah!
Catherine this is lovely. Thank you for sharing. My husband and I are slowly making the changes to our house to make it place we want to come home to.
This is my favorite-est!!!! Great job on both
Lest the nest be like the rest,
we have to test the nest the best.
Tressed and dressed, to pass the test,
no rest until the best impressed.
Thanks Rena and Penny. It’s incredible to think of how many poems we’re reading every day. I bet we’ll miss them, we’ll have to carry on a bit
Great poems, Catherine!! I agree how amazing it is the number of poems we’ve written and read! We’ve talked about keeping this going in some form – I think we really should!
Great poems! I really like the rhyme in the second!
Thanks Lori and Erik. I think we should keep something going too. A progressive poem between us or something
Lovely poem, Catherine. I feel like ‘resting in the nest’ today.
(The only way I can comment on WP blogs ATM is through twitter. My blog address comes up on twitter…)
Denise
Thanks Denise, will visit you before the day is over I promise!
What I love about reading your first poem, was that it takes on several meanings, doesn’t it? A restless soul, an unfulfilled person, a rebelllious teen can all be extracted from these words of yours. Your second poem, well, I love the word play. Love the language here. Again, I’m taking away a few lessons in this poem.
Actually Pamela you are spot on, the first one is linked to two others from this month, one of which is too sensitive to post on my own blog
You’d have to read them all to elicit the meaning 