Bird Poem Challenge for Wondering and Wandering

Hello Poetry Friday Friend,

This week seemed to fly!  Thanks to our host for Poetry Friday's round-up,  creative and connected, Wondering and Wandering, Christie Wyman.

Christie challenged us to present a bird themed post today. Last week, Diane Mayer had a great post on using photographs from the Library of Congress as writing prompts. LOC has become one of my best friends. There is no end to what to discover from their online collection or at the physical library itself.

These two ideas seemed destined to meet on my laptop.

When I searched LOC for "bird" I found a cache of travel posters featured as a digital resource. I found an old poem. I found a prompt for each season....how could I stop at just one?

Spring

Indigo Bird. [No Date Recorded on Caption Card] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2002718964/>.

Summer

Rio - Braniff International Airways. [195] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2009632101/>.

Autumn

Chubb, Thomas Caldecot. Turkey gobbler land. Thomas Caldecott Chubb. Decorations by Wharton Esherick. This poem first appeared in Poetry: a magazine of verse, August, . It is now published by the Centaur Press, Philadelphia, in an edition of 800 copies. Copyright 1. Philadelphia, 1934. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/rbpe.16202900/>.

Turkey Gobbler Land
By Thomas Caldecott Chubb

Down in the south, where cornfields stand in rows
Of blond, stiff spears against a parched, brown earth;
Where the tall pine trees smell of turpentine,
And iridescent doves flash back and forth (read the rest)

Winter

Bessho, Eigon, Artist. Secchū Ashi NiKarasu.[Between 1890 and 1920] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress,.