Message to a Murrelet – National Poetry Day Message Poem, Liz Brownlee
Liz Brownlee ♦ October 6, 2016 ♦ Leave a comment
Message to a Baby Murrelet
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Baby murrelet
how will you fare
in the wind and sun
on the ocean there,
.
leaving your nest
to jump in the surf
just one day after
your egg-hatched birth?
.
I follow my parents
who call out to me
as they ride the swell
on the vast, green sea.
.
How do your parents
guide you and guard,
when your world becomes
just water and dark?
.
What do you do
in wind rush and storm,
tossing and plunging
when waves grow strong?
.
The ocean is where
I am at home,
wind in feather, air in bone,
part ocean, part foam.
.
.
© Liz Brownlee
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