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Rated: E · Poetry · Nature · #1517971
Cygnus poeticus (a HAIKU WEEKLY entry)
Snowbirds


flying skeins of white -
raucous trumpeting proclaims
autumn's bitter end

dirty white on white -
cobs and pens shelter their young
from winter's dangers

winter slowly ebbs,
old and young take northward flight -
flying skeins of white
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