Listen in Sorrow #birds #poetry #loss

happy you tend to the garden

waking me daily with song

bringing cheer never sorrow

I find myself singing along

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more work is there in the morrow

gather and fashion a nest

complaints never are filed

rarely do you stop for a rest

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little one out in the wet storm

no jacket to fend off the rain

grateful for your reminder

sun always follows the pain

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I take my pen sadly to paper

to write about someone I love

gone toward braodened horizons

taken gently to heaven above

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spring raindrops

birds joyful refrain

tears fall freely

Today at Poet’s United the prompt is Birds.

This haibun is lovingly written for my father-in-law Robert who left us today.