Dear Abby: For years, I used to shoot birds-just for sport. I am enclosing the poem that convinced me to give up that sport. Some people may think the poem is ”corny,” but it had a powerful effect on ...
Cynthia Benjamin, in Pottersville, sent us an original poem about the birds she's been watching and listening to this spring: it's called For The... May 16, 2020 — Cynthia Benjamin, in Pottersville, ...
Two birds came upon a crust of bread lying on the path through the woods. “Please, after you,” said the first bird. “No, you saw the crust before I did, you eat first,” replied the second. “No I ...
Craig Morgan Teicher reads "The Virtues of Birds," a fable from his book, "Cradle Book." Craig Morgan Teicher is a poet, critic and freelance writer. His first book of poems, "Brenda Is in the Room ...
Mother Nature doesn’t rest. The snow falls and creates a test. The bird feeders have been filled. And the sunflower seeds are chilled. The birds find nutty nourishment best. A mix of feeder seeds ...
In 2021, the second full year of the pandemic, I began to go outside more after a year of intense insideness. Like others, I started noticing what I had not known how to see previously: the arching of ...
The Poetry of Birds, a collection of avian verse edited by Simon Armitage and Tim Dee, takes flight, finds Adam O'Riordan Ever since the Anglo Saxon elegist behind The Seafarer sought comfort from his ...
A long time ago — perhaps in the 1970s — I observed my father, Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, leafing through dictionaries, searching for rare birds’ names. He was working on translating a shahr ashob of ...
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