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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Fast Day 170 August 31 2010



 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:

Ruth said...

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.

Montag said...

Winterfat is pretty nice. There are so many wonderful words hidden away from mainstream writing!

Montag said...

Yikes! I was not aware of the similarity of tanager and teenager. Not so sure I like it.

Ruth said...

Teenager did not come to mind when I read tanager. I thought of the beautiful bird only. For what it's worth.

Montag said...

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.