Painted Winter Beauties

Painted Beauties Tanka

Crested- feathered, fruit-

Eaters, this bird is winter’s

Artsy friend –Eye lines

Winged thicker than Clara’s –both

Are painted beauties –turn heads.

Jill MacCormack

On Tanka as a poetic form:

https://poets.org/glossary/tanka

A lovely far away poet's example--Sam Hamill's The Orchid Flower

https://poets.org/poem/orchid-flower

A lovely nearby poet's example- John MacKenzie's Raven Tanka Diptych to End July

https://mumblinjack.wordpress.com/2013/08/01/raven-tanka-diptych-to-end-july/

Cornell's Guide to Bohemian Waxwings

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Bohemian_Waxwing/id

And last but not least:

an old PEI Preserve Co post on Waxwings by avid birder and photographer Ron Arvidson

Thanks for reading!

Keep cozy,

Jill