The Wild Goose Once More is a photograph by Guy Ricketts which was uploaded on January 24th, 2016.
Title
The Wild Goose Once More
Artist
Guy Ricketts
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Goose Send-off
A Migration Poem by Owen Neill
Reading Writing Selection
Reading and Writing Connections
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The voice of ancient gossamer
rises still its ancient way
in the quiet thunder f eager wings
trying what the north winds say.
What do winds whisper in clever ears
that makes the time to go just right?
The wonder is the mesage comes
to all at once like second sight.
Preparation, patient, strong
born from the egg with what they need
each bird follows its primal plan
ten thousand years could not impede.
We came, once with reckless sway
and cut across the natural flow.
But now repentance pricks us on
as we repair the status quo.
We set the wild geese wild once more.
We hatch, imprint and train the flock.
We run, then fly, again, again
until we share the same bloodstock.
Man and bird are strangely one
yet each cannot know the other.
Along the route soon remembered well
the wild and tame are somehow brother.
The goal is fixed in the mind as one.
All eyes peel the horizon away.
It's time to soar where long ago
all nature held its solemn sway.
Motion liquid below autumn clouds
a man-bird combination flies.
Like an ancient myth we integrate
and put sweet mytery in our eyes.
A wrong is righted heroically.
A beauty we have never known
gives hope our world at least in part
will reap the harvest we have modestly sown.
The voice of ancient gossamer
rises again its ancient way
in the quiet mystery of new born winds.
They know again what the north winds say.
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