Monday, September 2, 2013

a poem for Monday morning

The Windhover

to Christ our Lord


I caught this morning morning's minion, king-
    dom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding
    Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding
High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing
In his ecstasy! then off, off forth on swing,
    As a skate's heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl and gliding
    Rebuffed the big wind. My heart in hiding
Stirred for a bird, – the achieve of, the mastery of the thing!

Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume, here
    Buckle! AND the fire that breaks from thee then, a billion
Times told lovelier, more dangerous, O my chevalier!
     
   No wonder of it: shéer plód makes plough down sillion
Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear,
    Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermillion.



            ~ Gerard Manley Hopkins


A glimpse of a beautiful bird in the early morning... 

the other day I was out watering the garden and saw a scrub jay perched in a branch just a few feet away.  I was surprised to see him so close; then I realized he was appreciating the water I was freely bestowing.  

I think I should get a birdbath.  

 

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