Sunbirds
A free-verse Poem
Purple blue iridescent
olive yellow exuberant
highlight the garden’s
self-endowed shadows
twosome flit, catapult,
trill mild and mellow
perched on the base of
ruby red hamelia flush
hovering over tubular
yellow, crimson russelia
to fathom floral charm
for nectar’s daily feed,
stealthily matting
fibrous wisps, straw
in a vague cradle
hung from blue pea
vine’s faded sere bough
shallow and shoddy
hideous reticulum
the nest greeted eggs
a blurbed rhythm of life,
parents went berserk
leaving to rush back
with worms in beaks,
stoop down to pour
food in hungry chicks,
humdrum of new life
next to my window
bringing euphony
to the silence of colours
joy and tranquility
racemised in tow.
Footnote: A pair of sunbirds visiting my front yard green patch inspired me to pen this piece. The birds designed an unsightly home to nestle its newborns. How it proved to be an abode of a happy winged family, unfolded step by step in front of my eyes.
Era Garg May 2021
