Hummingbirds, Humpbacks Whales and Red Tailed Hawks

mikeschultz Sun Jan 29 2012, 18:36

I feel especially pulled to the title
These names create, as assembled
In a juxtaposed manner, for what
Can one have to do with the other?

Hummingbirds with cultured taste,
Sipping nectars from flouted vases,
Appear to defy the laws of gravity,
Floating there on whirring wings.

Humpback Whales swim again,
Back from the brink of extinction,
Fifteen hundred to twenty thousand,
In fifty years of not being hunted.

And comes the Red Tailed Hawk,
Soaring the skies, in hopes with luck
To spot a meal scurry far below,
And dine as well as gravity allows.

Wildness far ranging, big and small,
Nature’s balance in wild animals,
These three I thought of this morning
And note just one for its singing.

Michael Schultz © May 23, 2008 (1309)