~ 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
