New Piece: The Proud Mother Bird

I created this new Piece last night,

It is constructed entirely from papers, vintage papers, hand made papers, Japanese papers, art papers, some thread, fabric and shreds of a Japanese newspaper. She will be listed in my etsy shop, Sakura tomorrow.

For the third time, we have a mother Mourning dove that has nested in our cactus tree, in our backyard, her babies just hatched two days ago, so this was inspired by her...

The Proud Mother Bird

Morning with the trees

The trees are

A peaceful awakeness

I feel their presence

On my morning walk

The ants scramble

Knowing not

Nor caring

About time

Only that they may work today

Right now

A big black beetle

Rambles

And the trees although

Separated by building

And concrete

Are in a proud silence

They have their comfort

In being alive

for the sun water

And their business

With the creatures who dwell

And spread their seed

The Little Mushrooms Series

Giveaway !

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I will take the names of those of you who leave a comment on this thread,
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On Wed. Jun 4th , I will randomly draw one lucky winner!
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including: this Little Mushroom Ribbon, a Sakura Fabric Magnet,
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I long to be like

The imperfect - perfect strokes of nature

Old tree bark

Slowly layered

With time

And subtle color

Such honest ripples

Of earthy coverage

I look at my skin

Soft and damageable

Pale supple

So delicate

My seedling frame

Seems to sway with

Any slighted wave

Of air

I crave sun and rain

Needing to put down my roots

They are slowly moving down

Earth is comforting

While birds court and nest in my

Newly budded branches

~

georgia sakura