Tuesday, April 20, 2010

LIFE AND DEATH IN SPRING

Photo by S. Auberle
REQUIEM FOR A TREE
It is difficult, this being
a stranger on earth.
~Sam Hamill
I sit in spring sunshine,
beneath my dying rowan tree.
Only a single branch
is green with life. This year
it must come down,
its broken body
no longer able to blaze
autumn's bright berries,
its work completed at last.
But, from the scarred top
today, finch and cardinal
are singing their nuptial songs,
or a cheerful requiem,
I can't say which.
Perhaps they are the same.
~mimi

1 Comments:

Blogger Darlene said...

poignant

6:14 PM  

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