It's Still Life

I.
How To Treat A Duck

Don’t feed bread to ducks
It turns the water blooming muck
Let ‘um eat weeds and bugs
Let ‘um eat reeds and grubs
But don’t feed bread to ducks

II.
Now Spring

Now spring
This April light
Freed life
It calls to lively green
Awakened vein
A cheering blush
Spread broad on skies serene
Breathe in lean air
Of violet scents
Hear wild notes where April
Is now spring

Poem Now Spring is for NaPoWriMo Day 13 “Joy” and How to Treat a Duck is for Writers’ Digest PA “How to (blank)” . Images: from the Getty Museum Collection Metamorphosis of a Small Emperor Moth on a Damson Plum, plate 13 of the Caterpillar Book, 1679, by Maria Sibylla Merian (German, 1647 – 1717), and from Wikioo Ducks in the Morning byAlexander Max Koeste, 1910. Both images are in public domain. ©Misky 2022 Shared with #amwriting #glopowrimo #napowrimo on Twitter