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Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2005-12-29 02:23 AM

She is the lady dove of love and queen of all she feels
on the rooftop waiting silently for human empathy
and it comes in the morning before the sun is high
and in the twilight time of intensely coloured sky.

Her suitors by the score puff feathers, strut and stalk
this lady’s ever sure and most determined walk
but she pauses to assess and judge these manly wiles
with instincts born and bred in the beauty of the wild.

Immature and unaware she turns away this time
not ready yet to supplicate the need of birdlike mind
to feed amidst the frenzy of fine weather friends
and enjoy all the benefits of blithe modern trends.

Let no one say she waits until it is too late
to open wide her heart to the hand of fate
and she does in her prime to procreate the line
and nestles into motherhood happy for a time.

Suddenly her eyes grow wider with new sight
and she pulls apart the nest like a lion in disguise.
Her wings have grown feathers not ever tried before
and she takes to the sky a lady dove reborn.

She comes back again in the wonderment of love
this queen of all she feels and simple lady dove
and I watch her in the morning and in the twilight time
wondering all the while how it is that she survives.

But both of us will go to pastures yet unknown
when it’s time to reap the harvests we have sown
and that lady dove and me will begin again to be
regal like a queen in all and everything we feel!

Helen / 29 December 2005

Nightshade

Member Patricius

since 2001-08-31

Posts 13962
just out of reach

1 posted 2005-12-29 10:03 AM

This is lovely Helen. Much enjoyed.
hugs, Chris

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
~Carl Sandburg

Martie

Moderator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

2 posted 2005-12-29 03:04 PM

Helen....I can relate to this so well, being a lover of doves!

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

3 posted 2005-12-29 03:18 PM

Thanks, Chris and Martie. The doves eat a fortune of food but you'd think they were starving at feeding time. What a frenzy!

aujussy wolf

Senior Member

since 2003-08-09

Posts 1215
Michigan

4 posted 2005-12-29 08:03 PM

She comes back again in the wonderment of love
this queen of all she feels and simple lady dove
and I watch her in the morning and in the twilight time
wondering all the while how it is that she survives.

But both of us will go to pastures yet unknown
when it’s time to reap the harvests we have sown
and that lady dove and me will begin again to be
regal like a queen in all and everything we feel!

~ a nice read on a chilly winters night : )
i enjoyed this little tale of doves
there is peace within their hearts
~Jwolfy

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

5 posted 2005-12-30 12:07 PM

Thanks for the read, Jwolfy. We could do with a bit of a chill here but generally I think we have the best weather in the world. Not the most peaceful of countries but I guess one can't have everything.

Mysteria

Member Laureate

since 2001-03-07

Posts 18328
British Columbia, Canada

6 posted 2005-12-30 12:58 PM

Helen what a beautiful story in this poem, then to hear you actually feed them - what a treat! I am sure through strength of conviction we and they will return yet again to fly in a "frenzy." Happy New Year to you as well.

Carpe' Diem

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

7 posted 2005-12-30 02:04 AM

Thanks, Mysteria. I sometimes wish I didn't feed them because of their silent chorus of "hurry up" but who can resist?

iliana
Member Patricius

since 2003-12-05

Posts 13434
USA

8 posted 2005-12-30 03:03 AM

I read this one earlier today, Helen, and came back to comment tonight. I absolutely adore it, Lady Dove.

.....jo

[This message has been edited by iliana (12-31-2005 02:09 AM).]

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

9 posted 2005-12-30 03:40 AM

Life is always tinged with our own perceptions thereof and so, yes, thanks from Lady Dove.

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