L'aura del Campo

Birches and blossoms

Birches and blossoms

Eyes wide open
a child climbs the birch —
blue robin eggs

The pines have sheltered
the deer, the robin, from ice,
the melt, the chill,
now spring has found the birch
greening branches, enticing
sparrows, finches and robins
to move to a new perch.

Come summer,
dense shade of the maple, and
the damp leaf mold, provide
a home for bugs and worms
for generations of wings
that adorn the trees like
autumn leaves among the gold.

Now the winds of winter
lulls all to sleep under a blanket
of snow. Yet life persists in nooks
and crannies, slowly marking
the days until the sun returns
when the impatient plums
send out buds and bloom.

robin flitting
among plum blossoms — old
man with a cane

© Kåre Enga [182.] (7.juni.2025)

27 lines