Twittering of Spring Birds

Twittering of Spring Birds

Tweet tweet, twittering

He and she, treetop cooing

Bird love blooms in spring

 

 

Seek the perfect nest

To a lovers hideaway

Hear the mating call

 

 

 

Together they build

Twigs and grasses for the nest

Mom and dad bluebird

 

 

 

Nursery in the trees

Speckled blue eggs cradled there

Bird land lullaby

 

 

 

Mamma sits the nest

A treetop incubation

Papa standing guard

 

 

Crackling sounds are heard

Now four little mouths to feed

Chirping hunger pains

 

 

 

In grass and twig nest

Hear the twittering nestlings

Begging for dinner

 

 

 

Now the hunt begins

Earth worms cannot hide from mom

Hungry mouths to feed

 

 

 

Crying all the time

Nestlings begging her for food

Eyes and gaping mouths

 

 

No time for cooing

Mother busy all the time

Love birds’ time long gone

 

 

Papa sounds the call

Alerting his treetop home

Predators are near

 

 

 

Nest is soon too small

Soft fluff becoming feathers

Nestlings growing strong

 

 

 

Mom looks on with pride

Gaping mouths turn into beaks

Little ones are birds

 

 

 

Time to fly away

One by one, babies take flight

Mom, dad, job well done

 

 

 

Prepare winter’s flight

Chirping dreams of summer home

Sings, fly south young bird

 

 

Tweet tweet, twittering

Trees are full of new spring love

Life begins again

Reviews

[LeLe]

Wonderfully amazing.

[Lizanne]

Love it. Takes you from the mating ritual all the way through to birth and emptying the nest. Wonder if birds suffer from the empty nest syndrome? lol

[Bull Dog]

Cooool Beans

[Stray Dog]

This group of haikus is great

[Sister Suzie]

Amazing stream of haikus

[Gandré]

Crying all the time

Nestlings begging her for food

Eyes and gaping mouths------this was my favorite haiku. it is detouching the reality, I love that.

[Gandré]

this is a wonderfull string haiku. it is singing and vividly moving and I smell the summer. thank you for entering my contest.