Thank you so much, Brian (with apologies for this very late reply!) I have been intrigued by the intense repetition in Hilda Doolittle's poems and decided to try it here. I was taught to avoid re-use of the same words in poetry, so finding this technique is invigorating!
This poem offers good information. I never knew that about doves. This proves that just about anything can be taken as a poem. The thing is to try to do it well. This poem shows it in some ways.
Thank you, Luis (please pardon the very late reply). I love to watch the doves--we have several different types here--and they certainly find their way into my poems from time to time.
I have noticed that as well, not with doves but with the chickadees, flycatchers, wrens and nuthatches. They get a lot chattier with a lot of movement. Maybe it’s the drop in air pressure? Nice poem too.
Thanks, Wes! I hadn't thought of the air pressure element. The creatures are so attuned to the coming of rain.
I'll have to watch the wrens when the weather changes. We have cactus wrens here, fairly active birds in any weather. A young one got into the house the other day, and my sister had to actually pick it up and carry it out...
I love the elegant lines of the wren but I am always bewitched by the nuthatches and flycatchers. There really isn't a bird that doesn't deserve our awe, they are so magical. Ps thanks for clearing up my paperback thing. Sometime in the next month maybe we, and by we I mean you, could get that ebook set up?
The repetition and rhyme is so beautiful!
Thank you so much, Brian (with apologies for this very late reply!) I have been intrigued by the intense repetition in Hilda Doolittle's poems and decided to try it here. I was taught to avoid re-use of the same words in poetry, so finding this technique is invigorating!
This poem offers good information. I never knew that about doves. This proves that just about anything can be taken as a poem. The thing is to try to do it well. This poem shows it in some ways.
Thank you, Luis (please pardon the very late reply). I love to watch the doves--we have several different types here--and they certainly find their way into my poems from time to time.
I have noticed that as well, not with doves but with the chickadees, flycatchers, wrens and nuthatches. They get a lot chattier with a lot of movement. Maybe it’s the drop in air pressure? Nice poem too.
Thanks, Wes! I hadn't thought of the air pressure element. The creatures are so attuned to the coming of rain.
I'll have to watch the wrens when the weather changes. We have cactus wrens here, fairly active birds in any weather. A young one got into the house the other day, and my sister had to actually pick it up and carry it out...
I love the elegant lines of the wren but I am always bewitched by the nuthatches and flycatchers. There really isn't a bird that doesn't deserve our awe, they are so magical. Ps thanks for clearing up my paperback thing. Sometime in the next month maybe we, and by we I mean you, could get that ebook set up?