Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Little evening bird

Little evening bird
Night sings outside my window
Unafraid of dark

Melancholy sound
Strangely comforting transport
To the past and now

World will ever need
Your constancy and peaceful
River of bird songs

You sing of summer
Arrival of warmth and peace
Bids a soul’s release



copyright Paula M. De Angelis
April 2013

Intimations of spring

Today is one of those late-winter days that signal that spring is in the air. When I walked to church this morning, the sun was making its b...