A Hummingbird in Winter

A Poem by Michael Sun Bear

A bird that did not migrate

A Hummingbird In Winter

Perched outside my frosted window

Yet another hummingbird dies.

I curse my selfish neighbors

Who hang sweet nectar through autumn,

Who lure them to linger past their migration.

All around me

Hummingbirds die.

© 2025 Michael Sun Bear

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Starr

such a sad write, I love hummingbirds.

Posted 11 Months Ago

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Added on January 31, 2025
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Michael Sun Bear

Shoreline, WA

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Once upon a time, a crazy, talented poet from across the Salish Sea told me of an intense dream she experienced in which she was given a strange title for a poem, but nothing more. She felt it import.. more..