Winged Mystery

Winged Mystery

by Kai Siedenburg, author of the Poems of Earth and Spirit series

Today, a lovely

yet unfamiliar voice

creates ripples

in the stillness

of the morning.

The elegant, fluting call,

spiraling gracefully

up and down,

is as near

as the plants

outside my window

and yet utterly foreign.                       

I haven’t seen his face;

don’t know his name—

I know nothing

about him

but the sound

of his voice,

yet already he has

stirred my imagination

and captured my heart

with his enchanting song.      

Who is he—

this winged man

of mystery?

What does

he look like?

Where did

he come from?

And why now,

after all these years?

There is so much

I want to know.

For now,

I have the beauty

of his song,

and the beauty

of the mystery—

and that

is more than

enough.