open sky :: SAMVAAD | 11th Feb
- Aparna Pathak
- Feb 11, 2024
- 1 min read
hosts : Sanjuktaa Asopa & Aparna Pathak
first snowflake
yet to settle
an egret in flight
- Diana Webb
( Hedgerow #134, 2021)
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hosts : Sanjuktaa Asopa & Aparna Pathak
first snowflake
yet to settle
an egret in flight
- Diana Webb
( Hedgerow #134, 2021)
Here is what poet says about the poem :
This is how I came to write it. I have a lovely view from my first floor maisonette window of a horizon of trees. Often the first wonder I see when I come into the front room in the morning is an egret threading its way through the canopies, its wings often shining in the sunrise. Its a fleeting moment of wonder just like seeing the very first snowflake. I seem to remember friends living locally telling me it was snowing in their vicinity, and waiting for that magic moment of seeing the first flake in the air outside the window here. Sometimes snow settles just as that first egret sometim…
A beautiful haiku from Diana.
A perfect winter poem. The comparison is stunning.
So nice to see one of Diana’s in samvaard.
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rising between notes
a coot’s garbled echo
settles at the bank