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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
STRANGE BEAUTY (GREEN ISLAND, LAGUNA MADRE, TEXAS), by ANITA MCCLENDON MILLER
First Line: Like blown rose petals drifting
Last Line: Strange beauty this for long remembering.
Subject(s): Egrets
First Line: Like blown rose petals drifting
Last Line: Strange beauty this for long remembering.
Subject(s): Egrets
(Green Island, Laguna Madre, Texas)
Like blown rose petals drifting,
The homing spoonbills languidly invade
A sky of gleaming amethyst and jade,
Then, on some sudden impulse, shifting
Their course, they wheel and bank and catch the sunset's
Color on each widespread wing.
Below them, tall white egrets,
Balanced serenely on the glistening
Treetops, guard their unfeathered young,
And one small vireo, hidden in the sedge,
Sings his entrancing song.
On the yellow sand at the laguna's edge
The nesting terns are hatching speckled balls of fluff
From speckled eggs,
And avocets walk delicately stiff
On their queer, sky-blue legs.
Song of the vireo, flash of spoonbill's wing,
White egrets on the treetops glistening,
Strange beauty this for long remembering.
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