hummingbird – Leaf & Twig

Hummingbird’s Hallelujah

praise
for the nectar
sweet people make

or perhaps a hummingbird
I’m a moth
with aspirations

sipping sweetness
from the false foxglove
mocktails in the afternoon

the sentry
guarding the feeder
as dawn wakes the day

emanating energy
even
in stillness

beyond the porch rail
butterfly and hummingbird
make their morning rounds

feathered emerald
the size
of a birch leaf

the thrum
of wings hovering
stillness in motion

sound signals
a brief
appearance

held aloft
it seems
by only hope

sending out
a siren’s call
to hummingbirds and bees

Heavenly scented, heady hedgerow
offering frilly goblets to hummingbirds.

The red throated hummingbird
sips from the baby foxglove;
drinking in divinity.