Four Swifts

by Corinne   Aug 22, 2009


Four Swifts
Live up to their name
As they dart and sail
On the late summer breeze

There's a delight
In knowing I'm the only one
Who watches them
Up here, on my balcony

Here they come again
My binoculars cannot catch them

So fleet are they
That they are better enjoyed
In a full panorama

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  • 14 years ago

    by Lonely Rider

    Beautifully described... we see so much around us but hardly do we notice its beauty...
    //There's a delight
    In knowing I'm the only one//

    ^^even I feel the same ... theres a different kind of excitement when you feel that you are the only one to see something that no one else would have noticed :)

    wonderful write...

  • 14 years ago

    by Sylvia

    I always love to read your nature poems. You bring the subject to life for the reader and I agree it is amazing that you live in a big city and find so much to write about nature. Well done.

  • 14 years ago

    by Daisy if you do

    How lovely! Of course they are best captured without the obstruction of watching them through binoculars. Very lovely! Enjoyed it immensely as always.

  • 14 years ago

    by Miss Teach

    Lovely! So strange that I experience so much of nature thru your poems -- you who live in NYC and I who live in the prairie!

  • 14 years ago

    by Ingrid

    Well, you certainly made me see them as well:)
    There are certain plants that attract them, that could be placed in buckets on balconies as well:)

    Lovely poem, serene and very desciptive, Corinne:)

    Take care,

    5/5 Ingrid

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