Great Egret

On one of my many walks at a dike, I happened upon a Great Egret who was wading in the shallow water and stabbing the water for food.  I watched it for a long time, its neck elongating, it's hunger, its hunting prowess.

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Great Egret



I will stab my prey

My white plumes will deceive you

Then I will swallow

 

Copyright 2013 Rozanna Landavazo

 

 



Drift

Ba.Atoll Goidhoo 2010 Maldives

 

Memories shimmer like heat waves

from the perspective

the angle

the position

of the witness

 

A heart view

a mind view

a spirit view

a view of unmanifested desires

 

It was this way

No that way

That never happened

You made that up

 

Let it go

let it drift

into the waste of the desert

let it blow like sand

undulating and curving

 

But remember

the wind, the heat

Save the inward smile

and kiss the air....

 

 

Copyright 2013 Rozanna Landavazo

 

 

 

 

 





It Comes Down

 

Like rain drops

from the sky

we sometimes hit

the pavement....hard

and disappear

 

Sometimes

a witness observes

but soon forgets

or is mesmerized

and drops

a poem...

 

 

 

Rozanna Landavazo copyright January 2013