A cinquain for Colleen Chesebro’s challenge: Cold & Storm
Frozen
these bleak meadows
tempest-beaten and cowed
songbirds by the house still chirrup
gaily.
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A cinquain for Colleen Chesebro’s challenge: Cold & Storm
Frozen
these bleak meadows
tempest-beaten and cowed
songbirds by the house still chirrup
gaily.
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You cannot keep those songbirds down 💜
Completely unstoppable.
Thankfully 🤭
Where would we be without them?
I am in unison with Willow singing the praise of a good bird. Very nice write Jane.
Thank you, Violet. They certainly cheer up winter days 🙂
What a great contrast with “the tempest beaten and cowed meadows” to the birds who still go about the business of life as if winter isn’t here. Lovely! ❤
Thank you! That’s exactly what I was hoping to get across 🙂
Wonderful Tanka! I don’t want to disappoint Jane, but with us here with permanent frost there is no bird to be heard at the moment. 😉 Michael
Poor birds. So many of them die of the cold 😦
That is true, but ours i think left into old sheds around the village. Some days one or two can be seen to look for food.
I hope you’re putting food out for them. They’ll be relying on it.
Yes,they get it allover the year, because there isnt enough in nature,without insects.
I remember a time when we were told not to feed the birds once the weather got better because there was plenty of them to eat, and they got rid of the insects in the gardens. Now Round Up does that.
So true,Jane! All over the last summer i saw no caterpillar, and only five wild bees. ;-(
We still seem to get more than our fair share of caterpillars, lots of bees because several neighbours keep them, but not so many wild bees.
Here they also have cultivated bees, but it seemed they had hidden themselves too, this summer. ;-(
That’s a bad sign. Too many pesticides? Pollution?
Yes, too many pesticides. Bavarias officials love to deal with the chemical industries usable for farming.
Yes, where would the world be without Bayer?
I like especially the way the sparrows gather in trees and make a singing chorus of silhouettes on the bare branches at dusk. It doesn’t matter how cold it is. (K)
They just seem grateful to have seen another day and to be alive at the end of it.
As we should all be…
True.