Photo: Karen Forte
Oh, you King
Of the branch,
Emperor of your
Nestlings,
Purple robe
Golden crown,
Your perch all
Pomp and
Whistling.
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Na'ama Yehuda 
Beautiful rendition of Royalty. 🙏♥️🌻
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He’s wearing the colors. Ergo, he must be king. 🙂
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Nice last three lines with “whistling” at the end.
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Thanks, Frank! 🙂
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We both picked purple as a motif; great minds. This bird certainly dresses for the part.
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Thanks, Glenn! I will be reading others’ work – and yours, now — I always wait to read only AFTER I’d posted mine, so it is ever surprising to find how sometimes associations went the same way! 🙂 Isn’t this bird magnificent? My friend took the photo in the Pacific Northwest a few weeks ago.
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What a mahnificent bird and poem
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Thank you Kanzen! 🙂 The bird IS magnificent – my very talented friend Karen took the photo.
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Love this. 🙂
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So glad you do, and so glad you stopped to say so! 🙂
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I love your characterization of this tiny majestic titan, Na’ama.
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Ain’t he amazing?!!!
🙂
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Yes he is!
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Wonderful!
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Thank you, Dale! My friend Karen is a magical person with the camera in the amazing area she lives and treks in, year round. It’s like being invited into the beauty of the wild. 🙂
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Truly!
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🙂
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Beautiful photo to accompany your beautiful words. Your friend is a skilled photographer
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Thanks, Crispina! Indeed, Karen is a very skilled photographer! She’s got an eye for rare beauty! I’m so very pleased she let me use her photos as inspiration! 🙂
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Yea. Impressive. You’re lucky.
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How delightful! In Ireland, the wren is king of the birds – this little chap fits the bill much better.
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In the birds’ world (and in ours, really) there ought to be no issue with having more than one king … 😉
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That is an extraordinary bird. I wonder if he knows how ‘royal’ he is, by our strange standards.
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I would think that by his own standards he is … 😉
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Wonderful metaphor!
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Yay hurray! 🙂 Glad you liked it!
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Oh yes… they say that it’s not the size that matters, and that little bird is very grand.
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Tis indeed, and it knows it! 🙂
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Lovely and original.
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Thank you, Judy! 🙂
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The glorious nature of creation that’s so small often makes me wonder about the infinitude of God and his beauty.
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A lovely sentiment about awe and spirituality. Thank you, Nitin.
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Incredibly royal bird. Beautiful imagery.
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Thank you! My friend is an amazing photographer, and the words just tried to do the photo justice! 🙂
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