Winged Sentinel
Watching as I approach
from a thousand feet away
Now sixty feet distant as I pause
upstream from your sycamore perch
Forty feet above the water, head turned
as you gaze down at me, curious
Camera stowed, I paddle from the bank,
drift slowly beneath your stately form
White head turns to track my progress
before you take wing, satisfied with my intent
I originally wrote this as a response to Quadrille #161: Staying on Track, the prompt
from Merril at dVerse ~ Poets Pub, which is to use a form of the word track
in a 44-word poem (excluding title), with no required meter or rhyme.
It’s not — in fact, it’s 63 words.
I totally forgot that it’s supposed to be a quadrille.
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Amazing encounters such as this are always satisfying. Nice work, Ken. Thanks.
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Thanks, Ron..
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Seeing an eagle is always special, to me anyway. Thank you for this, Ken.
I wonder what they do think. 🙂
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Thanks, so much, Mwerril, and thank you for the prompt.
Now, can you remove my link from Mr. Linky. I totally spaced out and forgot this is supposed to be a quadrille. I’ll see what I can do about writing another one.
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I didn’t count the words, Ken. 🙂 I’m sure you can rewrite it to fit the quadrille.
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what a beautiful picture you’ve painted here a beautiful sight to see!
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🙂 Thank you.
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A beautifully captured wildlife event! Nice.
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Thank you.
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This was wonderful getting caught up and involved in your scene Ken. It really engaged to the reader. Excellent job my friend excellent.🙂✌🏼❤️
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Thanks, Rob.
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A subject well worth getting carried away by.
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Now that would be something! I’m trying to visualize how you would draw that. Would the person being carried away by the eagle be terrified or ecstatic?
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You know, that is a hard one. In literal life, terrified, because you may feel you are prey about to be eaten and (if you are me) you are afraid of heights. So you are screaming. But in the mythical world, or fairy tales, maybe, I would say ecstatic, because so often birds carrying off people do so for good reasons, such as to rescue them, or else to transport them as part of their quest or journey, with only good intentions. And an eagle is such a noble big bird, what a ride! I vote for ecstatic.
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I was caught as well. (K)
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Every sighting is a reward.
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Yes it is.
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