Showing posts with label gander. Show all posts
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Monday, April 02, 2012

BOXED IN -- a goose poem, a city nature poem



BOXED IN

They've made their home
in a commercial zone.

He struts down the walk
where no predators stalk:

the vigilant gander
threatening human bystanders,

while goose wishes she
had more privacy.


© Mary Lee Hahn, 2012




Poem #2, National Poetry Month 2012

Cathy, at Merely Day By Day, is joining me in a poem a day this month. Other daily poem writers include Amy at The Poem Farm, Linda at TeacherDance, Donna at Mainely Write, Laura at Writing the World for Kids (daily haiku), Liz at Liz in Ink (daily haiku)...and YOU?