By Charles D. Campbell

To A Chickadee


Perky little chickadee
Warms the very heart of me.
Summer parent, winter neighbor
Hot to cold seems not to matter:
Others leave but you're no snowbird,
Fluff your feathers' spend the winter.

Thistle sliver's sunflower seeds
Satisfy your major needs.
Mine a metabolic ration;
Tiny seeds yield your elation.
Feet to perch--head down--tail up'
Acrobatic fluid motion.

Twinkly eye beyond my hand,
Can you see and understand
My challenging complexities?
You revel in simplicities.
I am stronger but I need
A few of your abilities:

You can fly from tree to tree,
I can travel when I'm free;
You meet the sunrise while I sleep,
I ponder isms wide and deep;
You fly to be with merry flock,
I stand apart my pride to keep.

Perhaps it's best we not try
To close the gap, you and I,
Friendship is spelled in joys and deeds:
You light my day, I give some seeds.
From lofty perch I hear your call;
My day brighter I stand more tall.

Charles D. Campbell
September, 2004

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