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| Category - Animals | | A Poem from the Jetty Views Collection | | Ten Pelicans - Viewed 161 Times | David Devaney
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Once home I spied ten pelicans
The clouds were dappled gray
They soared into the setting sun
Their beauty on display
They disappeared beyond the haze
Above this mystic sea
Brown pelicans upon the wind
Revealed the world to me
They told me tales of mariners
Who sailed the ancient blue
Immigrants and vagabonds
And pirates whom they knew
Observing too man’s history
His destiny and lore
As sage and seer they understood
Why dreams life can’t insure
From high above this ocean’s crest
They watched the world below
On pirouette they’d quickly dive
So they might stronger grow
And as ten thousand fishermen
Stand steadfast by their line
These fisher birds of special ilk
Do their techniques refine
Watching, waiting, they observe
The moment and the time
To soar, then dive, then eat, then rise
Their methods are sublime
And for one instant I was drawn
Into their world unknown
Knowing that upon this earth
I’ll never be alone
For everywhere about me now
Is beauty uncompared
That every moment of each day
Is with me freely shared
Devin | | © David Devaney |
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