Tag Archives: Red Kite

Bone, bird and air

February 1, 2020beauty, England, nature, poem, Poetry, Wild life, winterbird, nature, poem, poetry, Red Kite, wildlife, winterThe Cheesesellers Wife

Bone, bird and air
conspire to create grace
joy, a tumbling skydance
life exuberant, bright
triumphant over cold and hunger
here this icy winter day
knitted in those bones
are genes we share
we each breath the air
but only she flies
painting her joy onto the sky
cavorting into heaven

Woodland path

December 16, 2017England, poem, Poetry, Wild lifepoem, poetry, Red Kite, walking, Wild birds, Wild life, woodlandThe Cheesesellers Wife

Puddles and pools of sunlight slide between the tree trunks
While shadows stripe the root strutted path
Somewhere above in the blue
A Kite swoops and scans for prey
Its forlorn cry cutting across the Blackbirds chatter

Flight

July 15, 2017beauty, nature, poem, Poetry, Wild lifebirds, flight, poem, poetry, Red Kite, skyThe Cheesesellers Wife

Oh to slip into the sky, to soar and dance and tumble
Murmurate, swoop and stoop
Twisting twining the wind to my joy
Spiralling updrafts to rise
Then
Tumbling wheeling through sundrenched clouds
Cavorting with the very air
The delirious burning blue

Written after watching Red Kites tumble and play through the sky above my garden.

With thanks to Pt Off. John Gillespie Magee for the last line (from his poem High Flight)

Study in Brown

March 20, 2016beauty, Life, poem, Poetrybeauty, color, colour, Hawk, Life, nature, poetry, Red Kite, sun, winterThe Cheesesellers Wife

Study in Brown

Sunlight gilds and sparkles winterbare branches
Casts long shadows across ridge and furrow
Rabbits sit in the sun mourning the loss of leaves and grasses in the new ploughing
With one bound they are gone as the colour highlight appears
The russet brown of a Red Kite hunting