Blue Jays and "Friends"

I experimented with triplets and a rhyme scheme

The Blue Jay lands on the freshly rototilled earth,

Swishing dirt from side to side,

For all it’s worth

 

He darts toward a Robin looking for worms

Off flies the brown and red

And to the dirt, the Jay returns

 

The guts of Halloween pumpkins lie scattered around

The Blue Jay and a squirrel occupy parts of the yard,

As a veritable feast for them both abound.

 

It is a sunny fall day in the Pacific Northwest

Pumpkins and leaves, and sunshine and rain

It’s the season that I like the best

 

Reviews

[Rew]

We get greedy bullying seagulls visiting.
They frighten most garden birds off except for the scavenger crows who strut around totally unfazed by the squabbling argumentative gulls.
The crows are great cleaners up of insects, especially ants
Turning over dead leaves and eating anything and everything they find.
I'm sure that they actually converse with each other.

And you work?
" experiment with triplets & rhyme scheme "
It looks good to me.
Bringing, as it does, memories and parallels for others to chime with.
As this has done.
Regards from Rew.

[Shelley Warner]

Thanks for sharing your bird poetry. They are fun to watch and write about.

[Rew]

You wrote " Thanks for sharing your bird poetry "
I'm confused now, what bird poetry?

[Shelley Warner]

Your review contained poetic lines about bullying seagulls and crows cleaning up stuff.

[Chinmay Chakravarty]

I find it beautiful, although my appreciation of poems is very limited. I have been hardly reading or trying to understand poems except for the textbook poems in my school and college days! Ha! Ha! Now that most of the writers on this platform are poets I must haul up my 'understanding to appreciate' levels!!

[Shelley Warner]

Yes, poetry is a good way to express emotions, thoughts, appreciation of nature. I write very simply.

[JE Falcon]

The Jay-Bird family is one of my favorites, if for no other reason, it is for their cleverness housed in humor. And the same goes for this poem, clever, soothing to read, and all the while it brought memories worth a smile. --- Thanks for a nice stroll through your yard.

[Shelley Warner]

Thank you JE, what a kind review.

[Fabian G. Franklin]

I thought the rhyme scheme was well executed and the content was endearing. I put unsalted peanuts in the shell out for our squirrels and the blue jays snatch up about half of them. They seem to relish any type of nut or seed but are too big to hang on the bird feeder like chickadees and cardinals. I enjoyed the read. F.

[Shelley Warner]

Thank you Fabian. I appreciate your affirmation. I like your ideas for feeding the squirrels and birds too. Right now, I've been putting out suet cakes that go in a little feeding cage that I hang in a bush. I'll have to pick up some unsalted peanuts.

[John the Baptist]

A picture of a fall day in the Pacific Northwest here. We must learn to cherish such days, before the evil ones come nigh.

[Shelley Warner]

Thank you John the Baptist.

[Ruth]

So lovely :) A season that is a favourite for myself too - this is a lovely form Shelley and the imagery grants the reader pause into another world :) Beautifully described...

[Shelley Warner]

Oh thanks Ruth. I'll check out your writing too.

[Samuel Dickens]

My favorite season, also, and for many of the reasons you describe. It's not just the sights of Autumn, but the smells, too. Your poems are as enjoyable as your stories. Strange, but I don't think I've seen a Blue Jay in months.

[Shelley Warner]

Well, my wish for you today is that a Blue Jay come your way (rhyming by accident). Thanks for readng.

[Coyote Poetry]

Me too dear Shelley. I like the month of Halloween. Life seem to slow down and the children are having some fun. I enjoyed your description for the month. Nature does change. Thank you dear friend for sharing the amazing poetry and your thoughts.
Coyote

[Shelley Warner]

Such loving compliments. Thank you friend.

[Coyote Poetry]

You are welcome dear Shelley.

[barleygirl]

We have many blue jays here & I could just visualize those pumpkin guts & how much some birds would get off on finding that! I throw my garden refuse over the fence & onto this dirt expanse where wildlife can pick it over. Love the attitude of sharing in your message (((HUGS)))

[Shelley Warner]

I like that you do that. It encourages me to throw out more scraps for the birds and squirrels. Plus it gives my dog Baxter, a loud Westie, something to watch for from the patio doors.

[barleygirl]

I'm always ribbing my dogs for not being better protectors! *smile*

[Shelley Warner]

That's funny. My dog barks at everything.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

oh my...I live on a street with Blue Jay in the name...and we have several Blue Jays who live in this neck of the woods...
and plenty of squirrels...they can be quite territorial...
j.

[Shelley Warner]

They sure can. And they're quite handsome.