The First Song, Continued ...

~ Stellar Blue Jay ~

(All photos by Karen Wood:

Angel Fire, New Mexico)

We sang love songs to each other,

The birds and I ...

Mine was a lullaby, sweet and low ~

Sung barely above a whisper ...

Perhaps thankful no one heard me,

For what would "they" think ...

This one who sings lullabies aloud

To wild birds?

Moments later ~ or was it hours? ...

From deep within the depths

Of meditation and prayer,

As I poured out heart cries

Unto The Holy One ...

Their reply rode on the wind ~

Straight into my heart.

It was a bird-song anthem

Resounding throughout the forest,

Echoing and reverberating

Into my Soul.

~ Pine Siskin & Nuthatch ~

I had whispered to them a lullaby.

They shouted back to me an anthem!

One after another dropped by on my lap,

As I sat meditatively motionless 'neath a warm woolen blanket,

Holding a stone picked up from the road

In one hand ~

A devotional angel made from stones

In the other.

The birds shouted their Praise Anthem

In coordinated bird songs ~

Blackbirds, mountain chickadees, pine siskins, crows,

Stellar blue jays, hummingbirds, juncos, nuthatches ...



~ Red Winged Blackbird ~

Singing a mighty chorus

That drowned out everything except their

Song of Glory!

My heart leapt with Joy! ~

Utter Joy! at the recognition ...

That we are all held

In the same Lap of The Holy One ~

And all spring from the same Majestic Source

Who Sang the First Song!

~ Dove ~

My song was a soft lullaby ...

Their bird song was a resounding Praise Anthem ...

~ Hummingbird perched in tree ~

They were both

Love Songs ...

A continuation of that

First Song ...

~

~ Hairy Woodpecker ~

Sung to each other ...

And to The Holy One.

~ By Karen Wood