The Tulip Tree
Embroidered with flowers
and hammock slung
I dream
through a summer's day
and flit between
sun-lighted stillness
and the love-notes of birds.
by Margaret Bednar, October 29, 20202
Linked with "Poets and Storytellers United - Weekly Scribblings #43 - Found Poems & Erasures"
This poem is an erasure poem from an old book "Quiet Hours with Nature" Mrs. Brightwen (1904). The chapter on "The Tulip Tree" runs 7 pages with two beautiful illustrations.
5 comments:
Fun, Margaret. I think thst I could "dream through a summer day." I'll try this if I catch the COVID-19 any time soon.
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This is so beautiful. "sun-lighted stillness" and "love-notes of birds" are just lovely words.
This is just utterly gorgeous!
Autumn days also, I just left our 100 year-old cousin's. Her backyared neighbor had a hammock and a trampoline for the little boy who stays during the day. Just about every day she would be gently swinging the boy in the hammock. Note: our cousin in Baton Rouge, LA, fell getting her paper from the driveway and broke her wrist, right hand. We were spelling her caretakers.
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Just lovely, Margaret, especially the closing line.
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