Poetry Time: Lady Cardinal

While I was cleaning the kitchen, I found a female cardinal munching on the seed that I had thrown into my yard to feed the feathered folk. There she was amongst the sparrows and chickadee, like a queen. I got inspired. First poem of 2013.

Lady Cardinal

How you rule

With your crown upon your head

Your subjects scatter around you

Chirping loud praise.

Oh, Master Jay!

How your suddenly appearance

Pester the Lady and make her blush.

You make the subjects fuss

And carry on so.

Within the barren cold

You too rule the plebeian sparrows

As you feast

Upon the seed in my yard.

I, who am like a God

To those feathered folk,

Lady Cardinal and Master Jay

Bearing  food in the bleak mid-winter.

With me, my guardians

Who are Cerberus to my Hades

As they watch the Lady and her subjects

On this, the Feast Day.

1/22/2013

1:00 pm