National Poetry Month Challenge - Day 8

[wordsrmylife]

Ignorant of History

Daily
a panic
of mourning doves
                                        bursts
from the lawn
with the lift
of the latch on my old-fashioned door.

By the time I return,
mere minutes later,
so have they,
for a repeat performance.
Is this avian dementia,
or is Santayana's dictum for the birds?

--Katherine Quimby Johnson. All rights reserved.

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Comments

[olmue]

I'm really enjoying these poems!