Tranquility

Close your eyes and listen to the wind

As it dances through the leaves
Filling your heart with utmost joy, in its simplicity
Feel it caressing your skin
Comforting, counseling and healing your soul.

Be good!

D.

Scarlet Ibis

Swamps are the habitats in which I live 
Crustaceans are what I eat 
Allowing me this brilliant 
Radiant red plumage
Long ago they would hunt and eat me
Expensively were my feathers sold
Today, I am a spectacular tourist attraction


Indeed the National Bird of this cosmopolitan island
By law in Trinidad
I am protected and considered endangered 
So take some time and go look for me in Caroni


© Denise Etienne


This is an acrostic poem that I wrote on the Scarlet Ibis, which is the National bird of Trinidad. I am working on a book with friend of mine, Beatrice Bork, a talented animal artist. The book will be a compilation of her watercolors and my poems.

The forest and I...

I have always loved the forest! 

It's full of tranquility and amazing beauty

Teeming with life in every direction,

Be it tiny ants, or the great big tree

All living together in harmony.

© Denise Etienne, 2010