DOVES IN THE SNOW

Photo by S. Auberle
finally, first poem of 2014 has arrived...

DOVES IN THE SNOW

make something    learn something

see beauty    love someone…

                ~Robert Genn

doves in the snow on

this morning ten below

zero hums the furnace song

a red-capped woodpecker

zig-zags up the tree and cardinals

flash by in natty crimson shirts

today I will compose poems

absorb the warm language of sun

admire the humility of doves --  

their wobbly  plumpness 

delicate aprons of feathers --

how they remind me

of the old grandmothers I loved

in their brown shawls

and modest everyday-dresses

always making tidy and fresh

the seed-scattered snow

the messy world around them