Oh Bird of Prey!

(are you a hunter?)

Oh bird of prey!

With your precision of flight

Are you a hunter? With

Your eyes so sharp with insight

Oh bird of prey!

With your silent sweep

Are you a hunter? With

Your focus so piercingly deep

Oh eagle I love you/them

Especially in morning glance

Are you a hunter? Over

stillness of water’s abundance…

Osprey hunts, plucking with

absolute precision, your breakfast,

Then you Eagle, uninvited, unseen

join Osprey in arial dances

Oh bird of prey!

With awesome precision

An absolute of a different kind

Flying with gravity in defiance

Oh eagle I love you/them

In Nature’s abun-dance…I wonder

Who’s babies will get fed?

Who’s catch makes the hunter?

Oh eagle, my sky dancer,

You ARE a hunter, in pursuit

Of a partner, in your sky dance

Oh how you’ve already caught me!

….And on another morning

Dear Osprey it’s you who hunts me—

Who takes my heart soaring!

Blessed be the sacred diversity of Aliveness

Photo by Philip Hutcherson (onmurdencove.com) of metal sculpture “Attacking Eagle”created by Greg Neal in the Price sculpture forest on Whidbey Island, WA

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