Litany
Mary, Miriam, holy Mother...
autumn tanager!
pray for us
passenger of time,
pray for us
owl of foresight,
goldfinch teenager,
child-sung blue of robin,
habitat and grassland -
prairie falcon eyes,
niche on high places!
bluegrass and winterfat,
squirrelgrass, wheatgrass,
tumbleweed and sage!
Lady sachem paint the world
with the autumnal palette!
I want some cloth of this color!
Hey! A cloth to give my sweet one!
She will make a coat of it!
notes:
early this week... early is good.
To be a precise Litany, each line, such as "owl of foresight" should be followed by a "pray for us", but I'm not sure if that's too unwieldly... so I merely put in the first few.
5 comments:
I love the image you chose for this poem.
I do like me a litany. And this is a fine one, with smiles induced. Favorite word: winterfat.
But I might change my mind.
Winterfat is pretty nice. There are so many wonderful words hidden away from mainstream writing!
Yikes! I was not aware of the similarity of tanager and teenager. Not so sure I like it.
Teenager did not come to mind when I read tanager. I thought of the beautiful bird only. For what it's worth.
It helps. I changed it a little: three ages - old owl, teen goldfinch, child robin.
bright crimson orange tanagers...like flaming smokey pumpkins lighting the autumn.
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