The Signal

September’s strange winds, dimming days, falling flowers

signal

migration

each solitary hummer born bird

wings over water

catching tail winds, skimming tree tops

a simple New World snowbird

dares mountain peaks turned southward

returning to winter’s roost

orchid and silk trees

emboldened by rosy blooms

transplants of Asia firmly rooted to sandy soil

twittering upon full-leafed boughs

until heat’s humidity hails

the signal

to lift limbs

solitarily

wing its way northward

skimming tree tops

catching tail winds

over waters

past mountain peaks

and begin again

(C) Kelly Jadon, An Ekphrastic Poem for “Hummers Delight”

Together: An Ekphrastic Poem for "Hummers Delight"

TOGETHER

a bouquet blooms with breeze’s brushing

one blossom succinctly separates as

an iridescent shimmer

to hum and hover before memory’s freeze

zinnias

once small seeds separated beneath earth

now raised to face fond friends

as held hearts

gilded gold, pearled pink

queen lime’s chartreuses

each scarlet centered

drawing dwarfish eyes

each glorious great lake summer

just outside mother’s planted pale-bricked porch

a beauty to behold

as a tower

as a maiden

with long rapturous locks let loose

rarely seen

feathers turned against sun’s rays

nectar sucked center turned heavenward

to glimmer

a glance

a glimpse

the two together

both hummingbird and zinnia bloom

(C) Kelly Jadon, 2021 —an Ekphrastic Poem for “Hummers Delight”