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Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Found Feathers (for Chip - 1/30/2012)


photos by PSC - 1/30/2012  

Found Feathers
(for Chip - 1/30/2012)


Found the first on the side of the road,
white fluff fluttering,
blowing beautiful in the breeze;
next, a step or two away, another,
which I partnered with the first
and – click – a picture taken; steps later,
yet another, more colorful and – click,
another picture, memory preserved.

Then, I spotted more – one here, one
there, and a realization dawned,
more and more – feather upon feather,
I began gathering them up one by one, knowing,
even before the bloody, broken barb appeared,
an untimely death had occurred here. 
Still, I gathered what I could – of the beauty left
scattered on the trail – as a token – a remembrance.

Perhaps it’s all we – any of us – can hope for: 
to leave behind some essence of beauty,
something that others may recollect,
and cherish, after we are gone.


In memory of our good friend... who died 1 year ago today. 
You are missed, Chip.

old family vacation photos - Cape Cod, Mass.

 


 

Tracks






photos by PSC

Tracks

 

Last night’s snow tells tales

of guests come calling while I slept

late and early, footprints –   

(both familiar and un-)

crossing paths, skirting others,

some lead directly to my door

 

Sorry I am

to have missed them

(slumbering through their sojourn)

still I smile in the knowing,

trails revealed, every snowing

 

PSC/2013

 

 

FEB 2016:  Linked with Hannah Gosselin (Imaginary Garden with Real Toads) 

at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2016/02/transforming-with-natures-wonders.html 

where her topic is... "footprints"