Poetry Corner: Birdsong

Shanghai campus’ white herons (Photo – R.ick Wilson)

POETRY CORNER

– 5/25/16

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Ruth Yarrow

breeze
through aspen leaves
finch warble

country music —
woodcock spirals up toward stars
down to earthy beep

Ruth Yarrow is an environmental activist and haiku poet. She says” I have been listening to birds and enjoying imitating them since my uncle taught me the tufted titmouse whistle in the mid 1940’s. I live in Ithaca, NY.” She performs her haiku concerning birds, interspersed with her expert bird calls..

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Video by Kathabela Wilson

Alan Summers

bruised pears
the mixed sky
messages
of young crows trying
to be songbirds

origami trick
I fold in on myself
for the night
singing
the last bird out

Alan Summers, a renowned and inspiring poet and teacher of poetry, “lives in a house of sparrows, and possibly house martins, and the whole street sings from dawn to dusk”. His home is in a town called Chippenham, Wiltshire, UK.

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Okanamyaki Lunch (Photo – Facebook, Kathabela Wilson).

> Kathabela is delighted to be posting our Poetry Corner this week from Kyoto, Japan.