Moment In Time

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    Moment In Time

    Moment In Time

    It flew into the fire station
    Small and frightened
    It's wings fluttering faster than I can see
    Stunned from hitting the fire truck
    He picks it up only to realize it's a humming bird
    It lies on his hand but a few seconds
    Then to its feet looking confused
    Through the doors he walks
    Holding the little bird
    Carrying it back out in the sunlight
    To release it back into nature
    It does not fly away
    Those watching stand in amazement
    As this little bird sits in his finger
    Turning it's little head back and forth
    Looking at the hand holding it
    Then looks up at the big hairy face looking at it
    But this little bird lingers on his big hand
    We stand watching in amazement
    Bewildered by the site before us
    The photographer stands camera in hand
    To overwhelmed to take a picture
    Where man and humming bird
    Come together in a moment in time

    Georgia A. Gill-Elkins
    July 15, 2000

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    FranzJ commented on Moment In Time

    12-27-2009

    maybe the bird was saying thank-you -a soft enjoyable poem

    The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet (1803-1882)

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