Riding the Kudu

Kudu are very special. The have an amazing energy about them – peaceful, elegant, powerful, beautiful. I’m awestruck by them, and wanted to make them an integral part of this poem about the power of growth, renewal, and finding one’s self.  

Horse

        (Photo from hipwallpaper.com)

Monarch asleep – Haiku

The other day, a Monarch was resting on one of my little pine trees. She gently fluttered her wings, then laid them open, then appeared to have slept. I live in the city, so I was very happy to have had my yard used as a migration rest-stop and sanctuary : )      

Blue Crow

    (Photo from hdnicewallpapers.com)

Shadow

    (Cooper’s Hawk photo from audubon.org)