Change in the Wind

What are you thinking and feeling about the start of another new year?

"Seagull in Free Flight" by J. L. Johnson

There is a change in the trade winds

I can feel them flapping my wings

With a bird's eye view I can see

Something in the clouds up ahead.

Stirring with lightning I rescind

The pathways that are behind clippings

For past that lightning is a tree

From which I can perch and shed

All the feathers that are dull and old

Just like the tomes that I now hold

Fleeing south for the winter I will

For there are no storms in that still

And calm, the breeze carries forth

Unlike the coldness in the north.

A wise owl told me of the woodwinds

That lay beyond the bordering springs

I'll fly over that ocean blue sea

With my new feathers wide spread.