Summer Wings, Winter Wings (Shadorma – Haiku)

I’ll never /
cling to a gull’s back /
as he skims /
the ocean – /
but perhaps one wild summer /
I’ll wing over waves //

gull’s wings /
racing the whitecaps –  /
remembering snow /

silently – /
on ivory wings – /
the fairies /
have labored – /
under her snowy mantle /
Mother Earth slumbers //

Both images by Georgia Koch for MindLoveMisery’s Menagerie

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This piece was written for  Bastet’s Shadorma Prompt at MindLoveMisery’s Menagerie, where the prompt photos were “Windsurfing” and “Winter Sleep” in honor of the Solstice.  While researching gulls I found this lovely slow-motion video of gulls in flight.

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