New Year's Day

One tiny bird
Puffed so large
his wings won't close
Perched in the stick leaf
Rhododendron
On the only stem
still clinging snow
Tasting it to wet
a tip of beak
Just a wee
Dock'n doris
in sunny frozen
Wind

Reviews

[Sel Whiteley]

This is such a vivid scene and as always it shows such a beautiful affinity for nature - I think that says a huge amount about your empathy as human being attune to the world - you make these scenes more vivid by your economy in words. My favourite lines were:

On the only stem
still clinging snow
Tasting it to wet
a tip of beak

But all of this is just beautiful

[Gandré]

Oh Donald. My gosh, I so love this one! You present the New Year's Day from the perspective of a bird, of course, you are a passive observer, but you don't judge and this is so wonderful, so rich and meticulously discovered in simple few lines...