Chain-stitching a rosy sunset,
geese arrive in a cloud
of fieldfares and redwings,
a blizzard of snow buntings
blown north to south.
There’s an explosion of wings,
no soaring,
no gliding,
just metronomic beating
and a goose symphony
of honks and whistles.
The water ripples,
in a shower of drops they rise
and fade Into silent winter sky.
Kim M. Russell, 2016
Image by James MCallum found on http://www.ournorfolk.org.uk/
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writing in north norfolk 
I really love how you create poetry of those wings… wonderful
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Thanks Björn. It’s just the way it sounded when the geese came down low over the moorings. I wasn’t expecting them and they just appeared and were gone again.
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A very musical poem and I love your ‘goose symphony of honks and whistles’. So nice to see silence in here too :o)
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Thanks Xenia!
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You are very welcome :o) xxx
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🙂 xxx
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Your poetry shines so beautifully. You captured the picture very well. 🙂
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Thank you so much!
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You’re very welcome. 🙂
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P.S Hope to see you at my blog. You’ll be interested to see what I posted. 🙂
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Have been and left a comment! 🙂
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Awesome! I’m going to check it out. 🙂
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I would love to see this Kim ~ This is my favorite part:
a goose symphony
of honks and whistles.
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We get a lot of birds over Norfolk, especially in the winter, on the salt marshes and the many bird conservation areas, such as Pensthorpe Wildfowl Park. Blakeney, Brancaster and Cley are famous for birdwatching and there are some wonderful pictures on the Internet. Here are some links: https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/blakeney-national-nature-reserve/trails/blakeney-freshes-coastal-wildlife-walk
https://www.birdguides.com/sites/area.asp?a=25
http://www.cleybirds.com/
http://www.brancasterstaithe.co.uk/events/indevent.asp?EventID=107
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Beautiful words.
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Thank you! 🙂
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Love this. You painted the sky with these beautiful creatures and then gave us music!
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Thank you, Mish!
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Chain-stitching a rosy sunset,…what an image Kim..love this one.
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So pleased you like it – thanks!
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the cadences in your lines are so beautifully done–love this!
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Thank you!
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A beautiful scene to behold…and your poem is the next best thing to that.
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Thank you, Janice – that is so kind.
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I hear that there are two geese that took up at a nearby pond and I wondered if they had come from up north somewhere. I love the photo and the clear image of their sounds and how they leave trickling drops behind them as they take off. Lovely, Kim.
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Thank you, Gayle. The image is one I’ve used before, for a haiku or tanka on a similar theme. I haven’t heard or seen any bird movement since the geese, except for pheasants and robins. Have you ever read The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico? It’s one of my favourite books and I’m inclined to re-read it over Christmas. 🙂
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The water ripples,
in a shower of drops they rise
and fade Into silent winter sky.
Sigh… beautiful!❤️
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Thanks you, Sanaa! 🙂
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So perfect a description–chain stitching! This proves to me you have the eye of a poet. I wish I’d thought of that–so many ducks and geese doing that overhead right now as they make their way to warmer climes.
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I’m thrilled you like it, Victoria! We have some of the best spots for birdwatching here in Norfolk and I am blessed to live so close to some of them. 😊 🐦
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I do love bird watching. Enjoy their beauty, Kim. To me they are a spiritual experience of sorts.
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The poem makes me envision a reverse rain, one that is gentle, like a salve.
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Thanks for reading and commenting, Oloriel!
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Such glorious marvelousness! 🌹
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Thanks!
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I do like the first line…chainstitching…this is so descriptive and so elegant. The last verse makes me sigh and smile.
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I’m glad my poem made you smile. 🙂
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Talk about painting a word picture! Wonderful.
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Thank you, Sue!
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just metronomic beating
and a goose symphony
of honks and whistles
They sound musical when there are many of them though slightly off key. But naturally they are menacing!
Hank
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Yes Hank – I love to watch and listen to them from a distance but I know from personal experience how scary they can be up close – just like swans and peacocks, beautiful but lethal.
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There is so much beauty in the migratory flight of geese, and you captured much of it in your words 🙂
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Thank you, Bryan!
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You described a flock of geese taking a bird bath well. Nice.
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