Tuesday 20 October 2015

Starlings now gather



Starlings 

now gather 
in clouds in their thousands

preparing to flee 
the cold weather 
  of Deutschland

where wet yellow leaves 
fly away 
 from the trees
if only to block the drains
in the streets 

 the streets where the fog 
comes and goes
and the incessant rain 
is windswept
and cold.

 Most of the white storks 

already flown south.

The last of the swallows 

away in September.

 The swallows 

as always 
the first ones to fly 

to 
that 
far destination. 

Today 
they dance under 
an African sky.






4 comments:

  1. A really wonderful piece. Well done.

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    1. Thank you Blogoratti. That's very kind of you.

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  2. Lovely Gwil - captures the spirit of Autumn as everything closes down - in some ways you are worse off over there, at least we get some benefit from being surrounded by the sea, whereas your climate is colder. Cold enough for me here though thankyou.

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    1. Indeed we are much worse off weatherwise. Our winters come from Siberia. The worst is not the cold but the fog which can hang around for weeks on end, sometimes months.

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