“How far you go in life,
Depends on being tender with the young,
Compassionate with the aged,
Sympathetic with the striving,
And tolerant of the weak;
Because someday in life,
You will have been all of these.”
George Washington Carver
I awoke before dawn
To a now frozen earth
It was fifteen below zero
Far too frigid for any mirth
As my coffee now brewed
I gazed out my back window
And there, I soon spotted him
Perched so forlornly in the snow
I soon grabbed my trusty binoculars
Sadly wondering, if he were still alive
Then I recognized this feathered creature
In the frigid Arctic, they somehow survive
Although not much bigger than a sparrow
His kind do wander over the ice and snow
Some even refer to this bird as a ‘Snowflake’
A group of them are called a ‘Drift’ as they go
And now, I wondered if he might be injured
Or if on this bitter morning, he’d lost his way
But soon, his feathered friends came soaring by
They had somehow found him, this sub-zero day
And with a loud ‘chip-chip-cheeri,’ they called him
He gazed skyward, as his tiny eyes filled with glee
This Snow Bunting was no longer lost and all alone
As he flew off, I had another frosted glass memory
And then, it very quickly began to occur to me
How so very self centered, we human beings are
If we were as compassionate to others, as these birds
It would surely be a better world in which we live, by far
©2009, Mr. Ed
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Your work is always masterfully created and penned - superb!!
Best Always,
Lance
This poems of yours make me remember Roscoe.
Georg
peace, Carole~
we humans who always complaing.Then i realize He made them to be examples for us fools if only we would see it! Your one of the
few who does! Beautiful work!
Cheers,
Dan
re a little over forty now! Still, way too chilly for my old bones!
Enjoyed this simple beauty that seems to paint away all that is complex!
Love and Peace~
Kimmy~
A most beautiful of animals helping their own. If only we could do the same.
Mary
Newfie hugs, Rose
Christine
(((HUGS))) and love, Karla.
(((HUGS))) and much love, your friend in Tx., Karen Lynn. ;D