Secret Blessing[s]

[anirbas]

Standing in the middle
of my bedroom,
thoughts gathering wool,
staring into the green space outside...
Unexpectedly, I found to my delight...

I have a secret blessing...
An angel has taken up residence
outside the window of my sanctuary...

I'm not crazy...I'm telling you, I saw her...
And she'd built an angelic bower there...
Threaded betwixt and between
the limber leafy canes
of the Don Juan
rose brush
and it's trellis...

I've not seen her since...
She's shy and wily...
But, each day...
I see further evidence
of her continuing
to bless my sanctuary
with her venerable precense...

First one, then two, now three...
Beauteous angelings in their first phase...
Liver spotted in dashes and dots
on a field the shade of beige vellum...

Eggs! The angel has multiplied...
Soon she shall be four angels, not one...

~*~

Dratted, flipping Texas thunderstorms!!!!
@!#!@%^$%&%&$%^&^%&*%&(%((&(^&%&!!!!!!!
I have to get off, again! The sky is falling
and falling hard, from the sounds of it! LOL...
Later, poetical folks! I'm history
before I fry the entity! Nir.

[anirbas]

FOUR!!!!!! Four angelings in the nest this morning...
Can't wait til they break totally through to this dimension and hatch!!!!!!!
Cardinal babies soon to seranade me outside my sanctuary window! YIPEE!!!!!!
Can't wait to see the little buggers! LOL...

I am so surrounded by rushing waters this morning...My neighborhood is cut-off temporarily...
No one is being allowed onto the highway coming from any direction at the moment...
Good thing, is the creek out back, didn't rise out of it's banks last night...Kept me up til after four with the prospect and keeping an eye on it...So, I could sound the evacuation alarm as needed...Just all the creeks and ponds around us have surrounded us and cut us off from the rest of the world for the moment...The neighborhood is like an island surrounded by water at the moment...

March roared in like a lion with wind driven dust storm and roared out like a lion with thunderstorms and tornadoes and flashfloods in my neck of the woods...Not a sweet lamb...

Whew! I feel lucky and blessed, today!!!!!!!!!!

[anirbas]

I am so bird whipped...
I sneak around in slow motion
in my own bedroom to keep from frightening
the angel mommy outside my sanctuary window...
I had so many gifted peeks at her today incubating
her angel babies...But, when it came time, to close the curtain...
As evening drew closer...I freaked her and me both out...
She flew away...And I hung by the window, looking
through a slit like an anxious mother waiting for her wayward
daughter after curfew...Scared to death, I'd freaked her out so bad,
she'd hauled off and left her babies and me, for good! Finally,
little Mrs.? Ms.? Miss Angel became brave enough to flit back...
So I could stop having a minor heart attack and return
to my activities...I am so bird whipped...
It's not only funny...It's very funny...
Tomorrow, I'm going to buy her
some wildbird seed to augment
her diet...She's going to be feeding
four, before much longer...
Yes, I am so bird whipped...
Bird whipped I am...
That's me...
Bird whipped Nir.

[anirbas]

Sadly four has been subtracted
to three...One egg rolled out,
or she kicked it out on purpose...
Perhaps instinctively knowing,
something was wrong with it?
Who knows?

I want to surf the net,
for info on how long it takes
for cardinal eggs to incubate...
But, I hold that curiousity in abate...
As I think I'd rather not know...
So, their birthday will be a mystery
to me...Can't wait to see their
bald little heads wiggling
around on their flower
stem thin necks...
Beaks looking
three times
to large
for their
craniums...
Beaks dropped wide open...
Scrrrreeeeescrrrrreeeeescreeee...
Scrrrrrreeeeeching for their mommy
to feed them!

~*~

Returning
from flitting
and fluttering afield
in search of avarian
fine dining, the cardinal
mother doesn't immediately
land on her nest, I'm finding...She instead,
perches in the thickets of the sinuously vining
canes of the Don Juan rose bush, now covered
thickly in tight buds of red blooms about to uncurl,
unfurl their color in mass profusion about the cardinal
nursery, any day now...Quite soon...She lights above them,
and sings her sweet one note lullaby to her babies first...
Sweet...Sweet...Sweet...That monotone cheep...Cheep...Cheep.
A veritable natural miracle unfolds outside my sanctuary
window...The annual blooming of the rose bush
is any minute about to take place...And in the midst
of that perfumed profusional abundance of color...
Angels shall be born on the breath of roses...
I CAN'T WAIT! THE SUSPENSE IS DRIVING ME MAD!
But, I bet I do...Wait...Simple things impress
a simple mind, I guess...But, I like seeing,
hearing and smelling miracles unfolding,
outside my sanctuary window...
It means, even on the top of a mountain
of excremental stress, there is beauty to be found...
God and nature given to me for free, if I will but look around...

blahblahblabblatheringpoetically...need to go eat...
there's the dratted bird report for the day...i'm history!
poem on, poetical folks! Evernir.

[Sam]

I was walking Kiefer around his back yard last weekend and we spotted this little bird house
in the back corner of their yard. When I approached it, I noticed the nice fresh little nest inside and beside us was an old clothes line metal cross.

We apprached it and sure enough a bird flew out from the end of it. Kiefer stuck his face up to it and whispered to me, "He's in there." I had to look myself, but very carefully.

Every week now he is talking more and more and I am so captivated by him now.

I cannot wait for him to see the baby birds soon to hatch outside his kitchen door!!!

So....I share your enthusiasm!!!!

Sam

[anirbas]

;D

No fledglings, yet...
May lose them anyway, this weekend...
Suddenly, it decided to be winter again, in April, here...
We may even have snow flurries before or by Sunday...

[DavidMc]

Great on the spot reporting ... Life unfolding as it happens, keep us posted

Love, David

[anirbas]

yesterday,
still eggs in the nest lay...

anxiously, forlornly, I realized...
the freak winter snow storm
had been the angelic avians demise...

this morning, I gave up holding the mystery
of being surprised to me...hit the net for information
on the incubation period of cardinals...
twelve to fourteen days was the answer...
how long they'd been there, I wasn't sure...
backtracked from the date of this thread...
but, couldn't remember if I wrote the poem...
the day I found the first egg, or a couple of days, later...

fatalistic, I surmised the angels had died
and even pegged them as dead on arrival...
no exhalation of roses breath to scent
their entrance into this world...
only the scent of their own rot
within a world within a world, an egg...

earlier, before the storms swept in,
I peeked out my sanctuary window...
was greeted with what appeared to be evidence
of their demise...the brown and white surface
of the eggs looked different, caved in...
even appeared a different color...
perhaps the mother knew they were bad
and went on an avarian's equivalent
of going postal and stomped
the off eggs in a fit of spring
cleaning, in order to start
over again...found out,
on my info spree,
cardinals breed
two to three
times...

poor
little eggs,
I thought belatedly...
then...one of the eggs waved
at me with it's miniscule foot...
I wasn't looking at caved in eggs...
I was looking at hatchlings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

not moving, still...they still looked ovoidic...like an egg...
al beit, a caved in egg...hatchlings!!!! hatchlings!!!!

birth announcement: April, Friday the 13th,
Moe, Larry and Curly chipped their way
into this dimension!

Yippee! I thought
the little nippers had bit the dust! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D



*the bird report, David? does that make me,
sort of an arm chair ornithologist? LOL...Love, Sabrina*