Watching Birds Fly Into the Wind, (a Double Tanka)

Over at Weekly Prompts, the Wednesday Challenge is: Humility. Please visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> Here. Today my poem is about how our humble birds handle the difficulties of flying into the wind.




Watching Birds Fly Into the Wind (a Double Tanka)

The birds hover high
And struggle against strong winds
With wings at full span
They gracefully glide and dive
Tacking into the airwaves


Irrepressible
They’re powerful for their size
Like turbocharged darts
Aerodynamically
Conceived to sail through all winds







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G'day, and welcome to my blog site. My name is Ivor Steven, I live in Geelong, Australia. I'm an ex-industrial chemist, and a retired plumber, and a former Carer of my wife(Carole), for 30 years, who suffered from severe MS. I Write poetry about those personal thoughts, throughout and beyond my life as a Carer. I've been blogging for over 2 years, and writing poems for 19 years. Of course a lot of my poems are about my favourite subject Carole, but since I've been blogging my writings have become quite varied, humourous, mystical, observational, and even a few monster/horror poems.

27 thoughts on “Watching Birds Fly Into the Wind, (a Double Tanka)”

  8. Such an encouraging and inspiring trio…photos, poem(message), and song!
    We all need to take courage from the birds and keep flying high above our struggling and struggles.
    Thank you for this posting, Ivor! 🙂
    (((HUGS))) ❤️❤️❤️

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