Do you still delight
To see a bird in flight
Or watch him bring his feet from the rear
And put down his “landing gear”?
Do you thrill to see
Geese in their vee
Pushing north in the spring
On out-spread wing?
Do you like to see the limb sway
When a squirrel on his way
Jumps from one tree to his neighbor
With seemingly small labor?
Do you still somehow enjoy
As you did when a girl, a boy
The slight sly form of Mr. fox
Slipping by in white socks?
Do you bend your head low
To smell flowers in their glow
Or take a few in where it’s mild
Samples of God’s “natural wild”?
If one of the above “is you”
You still do as you used to do,
Rejoice. A little of your childhood days
Survived the balding or the “grays.”
– eab, 11/18/09
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Do you still delight
To see a bird in flight,
Or watch him bring his feet from the rear
And put down his landing gear?
Do you thrill to see
Geese in their vee,
Pushing north in the spring
On outspread wing?
Do you like to see the limb sway
When a squirrel on his way,
Jumps from a tree to its neighbor
With seemingly small labor?
Do you still somehow enjoy
As you did when a girl, a boy,
The slight sly form of Mr. fox
Slipping by in white socks?
Do you bend your head low
To smell flowers in their glow,
Or take a few in where it’s mild
Samples of God’s natural, wild?
If one of the above “is you,”
You still do as you used to do,
Rejoice. A little of your childhood days
Survived the balding or the “grays.”
– eab,11/18/09
Read Full Post »
